Exposed The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
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Biographical note
Caroline (Carrie) Vout is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She is also Director of Cambridge's Museum of Classical Archaeology and has curated exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Carrie has appeared on Woman's Hour and In Our Time, and has written for Apollo, Minerva, the Times Literary Supplement and the Observer. In 2012 and 2013, she chaired the judging panel of the John D. Criticos Prize, and from 2019 to 2024 holds the Byvanck Chair at Leiden University.Written with such depth and enthusiasm, Exposed has expanded my mind on the body in the Ancient World. An essential and hugely enjoyable read
- Katy Hessel, author, The Story of Art Without Men
Vout tackles a huge range of ideas and subjects with irrepressible energy ... full of arresting, sometimes startling ideas and facts that topple the Greeks and Romans from their lofty, pristine, snow-white pedestals
Guardian
A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks again and again
- Peter Frankopan, author, The Earth Transformed
Spectacular ... highly stimulating ... it takes a book of ambitious scope like this to challenge preconceptions of what art actually is
Literary Review
The illustrations are superb throughout ... packed with fascinating facts and original insights
The Sunday Times
From Ovid to the Olympics, Sophocles to spiritual Viagra, Caroline Vout is a wonderful guide, wearing her erudition lightly and with a great sense of fun.
- Gavin Francis, bestselling author of Recovery and Adventures in Human Being,
Fascinating and compelling ... Brilliantly written and lavishly illustrated, Exposed is also the nearest thing to a classical page-turner you will read this year ... a pleasure to read
Journal of Classics Teaching
Vout sustains a fast-moving conversation with her readers. She uses an admirably wide range of texts, art and objects and shows that bodies came in many shapes, sizes and roles in antiquity too. Exposed helps us widen our minds when we turn to envisaging the ancient world
- Robin Lane Fox,
Caroline Vout takes the Greek and Roman body apart with impressive scholarship and a sublime sense of humour. In Exposed she goes well beyond our cliché view of the classical human form and reveals in unflinching detail what it was really like for the Greeks and Romans to inhabit their mortal coils and by extension the world about them. Of course in doing so she unavoidably directs us to contemplate the same. So if you have a body you should definitely read this. Oh and did I mention it made me laugh out loud too?"
- Jimmy Mulville,