Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

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Introduction

I. Philosophy, Reflections and Mirrors

1. The Liver and the Mirror: Images Beyond the Eye in Plato's "Timaeus" Ava Shirazi

2. Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Reality of Mirror Images Katerina Ierodiakonou

3. Catoptrology in Lucretius' DRN (4.269-323) Myrto Garani

4. Tideus' Theory of Reflection in On the Mirrors Mikhail Silian


II. [Wo]men in the Mirror

1. Mirrors of Women, Mirrors of Words. The Mirror in the Greek Papyri Isabella Bonati & Nicola Reggiani

2. A flame on Etruscan mirrors? Meaning and function in daily life and religion of the pattern on the mirrors' reflecting side Vittorio Mascelli

3. Portable love: ivory mirror cases under the lens of fin' amor Loreto Casanueva Reyes

4. 'So skillfully mirrored in his art': (re)visiting mirrors in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray Nikolas P. Kakkoufa


III. Liminal Mirror

1. Mirrors and the Manufacture of Religious Aura in the Graeco-Roman world Tatiana Bur

2. The Mirror of Nature Daniel Markovic

3. "The spotless dioptra of prophecy". A mirror metaphor in Byzantine literature Eirini Afentoulidou

4. Mirrors and Mirroring in Dreams: Self-reflection and Liminality in the Roman de la Rose and in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Efthymia Priki


IV. Mimetic Mirror

1. Plane and Curved Mirrors in Classical Antiquity Maria Gerolemou

2. Lucian's lunar mirror (VH 1.26): an ancient telescopic fantasy Karen ni Mheallaigh

3. Mirroring the Face of God: The Challenge of the "Invisible Face" and the Metropolitan Crucifixion Ivory Kalliroe Linardou

4. Technologies ,made in Greece': Konstantinos Simonides' Steampunk Inventions through the Looking-Glass Lilia Diamantopoulou

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