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The Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire
Shadi Bartsch
People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In
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