Roman Noses (Dr Mark Bradley, University of Nottingham)
5:00pm - 6:00pm /
Tuesday 2nd April 2019
/ Venue: Seminar Room 10, Rendall Building
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From Renaissance humanists to playwrights and the racial theorists of Victorian Britain and Nazi Germany, modern European society has exhibited a curious fascination with the nose. Taking centre-stage in the face and the most prominent feature of the body, the nose has sometimes been interpreted as a pivotal index of character and behaviour. While many individuals had a potato, saddle or duckbill nose, or a nose that was wide, pointy, long, hook or slant, a lucky few sported a noble ‘Roman nose’ or an artistic ‘Greek nose’, widely considered to be the most desirable of nose types. This paper will explore the origins of nasal physiognomics in classical antiquity, from Classical and Hellenistic Greece through to Imperial Rome and late antiquity, and demonstrate how a single component of the human face could point towards a significant set of Greco-Roman values and associations in the realms of philosophy, sculpture, satire, biography and politics, and become an authoritative platform for how we have approached the cultural taxonomy of the human face ever since.
Mark Bradley is Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and the Student Experience) and Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on the sensory experience of the ancient world.
Mark Bradley is Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and the Student Experience) and Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on the sensory experience of the ancient world.