title: [Twins in the Greco-Roman world: medical theories and iconographpy].
abstract: The phenomenon of multiple births aroused very ambivalent feelings in the ancient classical world. This article endeavours to define how this ambivalence was expressed, on the one hand in ancient medical theories, through associations with concepts of monstrosity and excess, on the other hand in art, through a selection of mythological themes and iconographic conventions.
authors.affiliation: Université de Fribourg.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dasen
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D018645:Greek World; D049690:History, Ancient; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history; D012098:Reproduction; D018644:Roman World; D014427:Twins
vernacular_title: Les jumeaux dans le monde greco-romain: theories medicales et iconographie.