Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
The legal body : the symbolic corpse in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone -- The political body : pain and punishment in Sophocles' Oedipus rex and Oedipus at Colonus -- The erotic body : mutilation and desire in Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon -- The moral body : the figure of suffering in Prudentius' Peristephanon liber.