The Iconography of Consumption in the Ancient World
Authors
Mirko D. Grmek
Practical School of Advanced Studies IV Section, Paris
Keywords:
Iconography , Consumption , Emaciation , Old age , Rickets
Abstract
There is in Delphi a votive statue - representing a man affected with ph-tisis - which is said to have been dedicated by Hippocrates himself. A lit-tle bronze found in Soissons could refer to the legend of Perdiccas' love sickness. We draw a parallel between Perdiccas' bronze and a mosaique in Lambiridi. Others representations (portraits, coins, statues of rickety children and iconographies of the Old Age) of weak and thin bodies are here studied following a medical approach.
