Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World : Plato’s Stepchildren (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. The Argeads: Disabled People and Artistic Representations from Ancient Macedonia; 3. Hephaestus and Other Artistic Representations of Clubfoot; 4. Mythological and Historical Artistic Representations of Dwarfism; 5. Harpocrates and Artistic Representations of Cerebral Palsy; 6. Mythological and Historical Representations of Blindness & Visual Impairment; 7. Pott’s Disease and Artistic Representations of Spinal & Other Disabilities; 8. Ancient Medicine and Healing as Related to Disability; 9. Conclusion.