TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradley,Mark
AU  - Bradley,Mark
AU  - Leonard,Victoria
AU  - Totelin,Laurence
TI  - Bodily Fluids in Antiquity
SN  - 9780367764067
PY  - 2021///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Body fluids
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Civilization, Classical
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Classical influences
KW  - Civilisation ancienne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
KW  - history (discipline)
KW  - aat
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ancient Egypt
KW  - Ancient religion
KW  - Byzantium
KW  - Classical literature
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Gender
KW  - Greece
KW  - Identity
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Persia
KW  - Reception
KW  - Rome
KW  - Sensory turn
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - The body
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - Medical and philosophical theories of generation from the classical world are often classified according to whether the female as well as the male produces 'seed', the fluid substance which does the most important work in procreation. Aristotle is usually identified as the most influential proponent of the 'one-seed model', while Galen champions the 'two-seed' cause, and the debate between them continues to matter for centuries. At stake here is not just theoretical efficiency - how well the full complexities of parental resemblance are accounted for by the contending notions, for example - but also, it has been suggested, politics and patriarchy. Two seeds are better, more egalitarian, than one: the female role in generation is more positively valued in this model. This chapter will argue that, not only this characterisation, but the division itself, is misleading: particularly if viewed from a fluid perspective. Another way must be found to understand the key concepts involved in these foundational ancient debates about human procreation
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54633
ER  -