Rome's Visceral Reactions: Politics and Poetics in Flesh and Blood - Hardcover

In ancient Rome, the Latin word viscera denoted the inner parts of the body, where physical sensations related to fear and anger could be felt and whose injury meant certain death. Viscera were also entangled with religious, political, and reproductive imagery: the word could refer to cuts of sacrificial meat, the inner workings of a governing body, a mother's fertile womb, and the offspring she...