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Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (2007)
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Swain, S., Boys-Stones, G., Elsner, J., Ghersetti, A., Hoyland, R., & Repath, I. (2007). S. Swain (Ed.), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. Oxford University Press

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 appe... Read More about Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam.

Post-Hellenistic philosophy : study of its development from the Stoics to Origen (2001)
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Boys-Stones, G. (2001). Post-Hellenistic philosophy : study of its development from the Stoics to Origen. Oxford University Press

This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstruct... Read More about Post-Hellenistic philosophy : study of its development from the Stoics to Origen.