Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul - Boys-Stones, George (Lecturer in Classics, University of Durham) a Elsner, Jas (Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford) a Ghersetti, Antonella (Lecturer, Universita Ca'Foscari, Venice) a Hoyland, Robert (Reader in Arabic and Middle

Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy.