Jane Draycott
Biographic Data
| ID | 1140741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Draycott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Draycott |
| SIGNATURE | DRAYCOTT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Time and Ancient Medicine
Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games
This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or archaeological contexts, portrayals of female historians and archaeologists, and portrayals of women in fantastical historical and archaeological contexts. It includes both triple A and independe…
Women in Classical Video Games
Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction of women in video games set in classical antiquity. The volume s…
Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome
Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media
This study examines the reception of Cleopatra from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day as it has been reflected in popular culture in the United States of America. Daugherty provides a broad overview of the influence of the Egyptian queen by looking at her presence in film, novels, comics, cartoons, TV shows, music, advertising and toys. The aim of the book is to show the different ways in which the figure of Cleopatra was able …
Disability Studies and the Classical Body
By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception, and disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes, from the narrative voice to sensory studies. It argues that disability and disabled people are the 'forgotten other' of not just Classics, but also the Humanities more widely. Beyond the moral merits of rectifying this neglect, this book also provides a series of approaches a…
Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World
Reviewed by: Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World: A Social and Cultural History by Christian Laes Jane Draycott Christian Laes. Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World: A Social and Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xii + 238 pp. $99.99 (978-1-107-16290-7). The subject of impairment and disability in antiquity has seen an explosion of interest over the last two decades, and Christian Laes has lon…
Helen King, Hippocrates Now
To those familiar with Helen King’s scholarship, the subject of her latest book may come as something of a surprise, and the execution even more so. Despite the title, it is not really about Hippocrates, nor is it really about medicine, either ancient or modern. Rather, it is about people’s perceptions and misperceptions, for better or for worse, of those things. Yet this examination of the idea, or ideas, of Hippocrates in the contemporary world…
Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era by Duane W. Roller
Reviewed by: Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era by Duane W. Roller Jane Draycott Duane W. Roller. Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era. Women in Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii, 207. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-19-061882-7. The latest volume in Oxford University Press' Women in Antiquity series is something of a departure from its predecessors in that it does not focus on o…
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden
"The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner." Material Religion, 15(4), pp. 515–516
Prostheses in Antiquity
Prosthetic hair in ancient Rome
This paper examines the use of prosthetic hair in the form of wigs and hair pieces in the Roman Republic and Empire. It surveys the importance of hair as a social and symbolic presentation of self in Roman society, investigates the reasons for and ramifications of hair loss for Roman men and women, and determines the extent to which prosthetic hair was utilised as a means of addressing these, before assessing the importance of prosthetic hair as …
Bodies of Evidence. Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future
The papers presented in this volume are the result of the conference Bodies of Evidence: Re-defining Approaches to the Anatomical Votives that was held at the British School in Rome in 2012. Additional papers area also included
When Lived Ancient Religion and Lived Ancient Medicine Meet
This paper argues that there was a strong connection between Roman domestic religious belief and practice and Roman domestic medical practice through the association of the household gods with the household's health and well-being. It examines six examples of household shrines from Pompeii and the surrounding area to explore how specific non-elite households utilised their personal private religious beliefs and practices in the service of maintai…
Bodies of Evidence
Jacques Jouanna (translated by Neil Allies, edited with a Preface by Philip van der Eijk), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
This volume comprises a selection of papers by Jacques Jouanna, Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). These sixteen papers are being published in English (translated from French) for the first time. They span a wide chronological period and are presented in (an approximate) chronological order: the volume opens with a discussion of the interaction of ancient Egyptian medicine and ancient Greek medicine, and concludes wit…
Mauretania
Ancient Mauretania encompassed the North African Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts and associated inland territory, occupying modern Morocco and Algeria as far south as the Canary Islands, but not the country that bears the name Mauritania today.
Rome Fellowships
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Dynastic Politics, Defeat, Decadence and Dining
This article examines the so-called ‘Africa’ dish, part of a treasure trove of silver table-ware discovered in a cistern at the Villa della Pisanella, a villa rustica destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius in ad 79. It proposes a new interpretation of the dish's iconography and argues that the woman in the centre of the emblema is Cleopatra Selene, while the attributes surrounding her reference her parents Cleopatra VII and Marcus Antonius, her br…
Size matters
A Horus cippus is a specific type of magical stele thought to provide protection from wild animals. Horus cippi were available in a variety of sizes, ranging from small enough for an individual to wear as an amulet or otherwise carry around on his or her person, to large enough to erect and dedicate as a monument in the courtyard of a temple. This chapter focuses on the small, portable Horus cippi that travellers and pilgrims carried with them on…
Dynastic Politics, Defeat, Decadence and Dining
This article examines the so-called ‘Africa’ dish, part of a treasure trove of silver table-ware discovered in a cistern at the Villa della Pisanella, a villa rustica destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius in ad 79. It proposes a new interpretation of the dish's iconography and argues that the woman in the centre of the emblema is Cleopatra Selene, while the attributes surrounding her reference her parents Cleopatra VII and Marcus Antonius, her br…
Size matters
A Horus cippus is a specific type of magical stele thought to provide protection from wild animals. Horus cippi were available in a variety of sizes, ranging from small enough for an individual to wear as an amulet or otherwise carry around on his or her person, to large enough to erect and dedicate as a monument in the courtyard of a temple. This chapter focuses on the small, portable Horus cippi that travellers and pilgrims carried with them on…
Mauretania
Ancient Mauretania encompassed the North African Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts and associated inland territory, occupying modern Morocco and Algeria as far south as the Canary Islands, but not the country that bears the name Mauritania today.
Rome Fellowships
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dynastic Politics, Defeat, Decadence and Dining
This article examines the so-called ‘Africa’ dish, part of a treasure trove of silver table-ware discovered in a cistern at the Villa della Pisanella, a villa rustica destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius in ad 79. It proposes a new interpretation of the dish's iconography and argues that the woman in the centre of the emblema is Cleopatra Selene, while the attributes surrounding her reference her parents Cleopatra VII and Marcus Antonius, her br…
Jacques Jouanna (translated by Neil Allies, edited with a Preface by Philip van der Eijk), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
This volume comprises a selection of papers by Jacques Jouanna, Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). These sixteen papers are being published in English (translated from French) for the first time. They span a wide chronological period and are presented in (an approximate) chronological order: the volume opens with a discussion of the interaction of ancient Egyptian medicine and ancient Greek medicine, and concludes wit…
When Lived Ancient Religion and Lived Ancient Medicine Meet
This paper argues that there was a strong connection between Roman domestic religious belief and practice and Roman domestic medical practice through the association of the household gods with the household's health and well-being. It examines six examples of household shrines from Pompeii and the surrounding area to explore how specific non-elite households utilised their personal private religious beliefs and practices in the service of maintai…
Bodies of Evidence
Prostheses in Antiquity
Prosthetic hair in ancient Rome
This paper examines the use of prosthetic hair in the form of wigs and hair pieces in the Roman Republic and Empire. It surveys the importance of hair as a social and symbolic presentation of self in Roman society, investigates the reasons for and ramifications of hair loss for Roman men and women, and determines the extent to which prosthetic hair was utilised as a means of addressing these, before assessing the importance of prosthetic hair as …
Bodies of Evidence. Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future
The papers presented in this volume are the result of the conference Bodies of Evidence: Re-defining Approaches to the Anatomical Votives that was held at the British School in Rome in 2012. Additional papers area also included
Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era by Duane W. Roller
Reviewed by: Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era by Duane W. Roller Jane Draycott Duane W. Roller. Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era. Women in Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii, 207. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-19-061882-7. The latest volume in Oxford University Press' Women in Antiquity series is something of a departure from its predecessors in that it does not focus on o…
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden
"The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner." Material Religion, 15(4), pp. 515–516
Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World
Reviewed by: Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World: A Social and Cultural History by Christian Laes Jane Draycott Christian Laes. Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World: A Social and Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xii + 238 pp. $99.99 (978-1-107-16290-7). The subject of impairment and disability in antiquity has seen an explosion of interest over the last two decades, and Christian Laes has lon…
Helen King, Hippocrates Now
To those familiar with Helen King’s scholarship, the subject of her latest book may come as something of a surprise, and the execution even more so. Despite the title, it is not really about Hippocrates, nor is it really about medicine, either ancient or modern. Rather, it is about people’s perceptions and misperceptions, for better or for worse, of those things. Yet this examination of the idea, or ideas, of Hippocrates in the contemporary world…
Disability Studies and the Classical Body
By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception, and disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes, from the narrative voice to sensory studies. It argues that disability and disabled people are the 'forgotten other' of not just Classics, but also the Humanities more widely. Beyond the moral merits of rectifying this neglect, this book also provides a series of approaches a…
Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games
This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or archaeological contexts, portrayals of female historians and archaeologists, and portrayals of women in fantastical historical and archaeological contexts. It includes both triple A and independe…
Women in Classical Video Games
Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction of women in video games set in classical antiquity. The volume s…
Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome
Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media
This study examines the reception of Cleopatra from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day as it has been reflected in popular culture in the United States of America. Daugherty provides a broad overview of the influence of the Egyptian queen by looking at her presence in film, novels, comics, cartoons, TV shows, music, advertising and toys. The aim of the book is to show the different ways in which the figure of Cleopatra was able …
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