Greek and Indian Physiognomics

TY - JOUR

T1 - Greek and Indian Physiognomics

AU - Zysk, Kenneth Gregory

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - The focus of this paper is the relationship between the Greek and Indian systems of physiognomics in antiquity. The study seeks to find similarities between the two geographically separated modes of thought and, as a result, to posit a plausible exchange of ideas about the human body as omen in antiquity, in which the flow of ideas went both ways between the Greek and Indian cultures in the ancient world.

AB - The focus of this paper is the relationship between the Greek and Indian systems of physiognomics in antiquity. The study seeks to find similarities between the two geographically separated modes of thought and, as a result, to posit a plausible exchange of ideas about the human body as omen in antiquity, in which the flow of ideas went both ways between the Greek and Indian cultures in the ancient world.

U2 - 10.7817/jameroriesoci.138.2.0313

DO - 10.7817/jameroriesoci.138.2.0313

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0003-0279

VL - 138

SP - 313

EP - 325

JO - Journal of the American Oriental Society

JF - Journal of the American Oriental Society

IS - 2

ER -