title: [The iconography of consumption in the ancient world].
abstract: There is in Delphi a votive statue - representing a man affected with phtisis - which is said to have been dedicated by Hippocrates himself. A little bronze found in Soissons could refer to the legend of Perdiccas' love sickness. We draw a parallel between Perdiccas' bronze and a mosaique in Lambiridi. Others representations (portraits, coins, statues of rickety children and iconographies of the Old Age) of weak and thin bodies are here studied following a medical approach.
authors.affiliation: Ecole Pratique des Hautes etudes, Paris, F.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Grmek
mesh_terms: D018645:Greek World; D049690:History, Ancient; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D012279:Rickets / Q000266:history*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Les représentations figurées de la consomption et du corps émacié dans l'antiquité.