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Seeing the face, seeing the soul : Polemon’s Physiognomy from classical antiquity to medieval Islam
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ISBN: 9780199291533 0199291535 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press,

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Flavii Philostrati Vitas sophistarum. : Ad quas accedunt Polemonis Laodicensis Declamationes quae exstant duae
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ISBN: 9780198723707 0198723709 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxonii : New York, NY : E Typographeo Clarendoniano ; Oxford University Press,

The severed hand and the upright corpse : the declamations of Marcus Antonius Polemo.
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ISBN: 0788502824 Year: 1996 Publisher: Atlanta Scholars press

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Seeing the face, seeing the soul
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ISBN: 0191569496 1429491914 9781429491914 9780191569494 9780199291533 0199291535 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy. - ;Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character from appearanc

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Physiognomy. --- Polemo, Antonius. --- Physiognomy --- Islam --- Psychological Theory --- Religion --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Investigative Techniques --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Humanities --- Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Psychologic Processes --- Psychologic Processes and Principles --- Psychological Processes --- Phenomena, Psychological --- Processes, Psychologic --- Processes, Psychological --- Psychological Phenomenas --- Psychological Processe --- Prayer --- Religious Beliefs --- Religious Ethics --- Beliefs, Religious --- Ethic, Religious --- Prayers --- Religions --- Religious Belief --- Spiritual Therapies --- Secularism --- Physiognomies --- Psychologic Theory --- Psychological Theories --- Theories, Psychological --- Theory, Psychological --- Social Cognitive Theory --- Cognitive Theories, Social --- Cognitive Theory, Social --- Psychologic Theories --- Social Cognitive Theories --- Theories, Psychologic --- Theories, Social Cognitive --- Theory, Psychologic --- Theory, Social Cognitive --- Islamic Ethics --- Mohammedanism --- Muslims --- Ethic, Islamic --- Ethics, Islamic --- Islamic Ethic --- Muslim --- Arabs --- Face reading --- Metoposcopy --- Characters and characteristics --- Face --- Pathognomy --- Phrenology --- History --- History. --- Polemo, Antonius,

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