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The famous works of Greek and Roman sculpture present an image of anatomical perfection which, as we know from other sources, was quite unrepresentative of the population as a whole. This is a detailed investigation of the plight of the disabled and deformed in ancient society - of the deaf, the blind, the lame; of hunchbacks, dwarfs and giants; and of those afflicted with more severe disabilities such as Siamese twins and "Cyclopians". This work draws on a range of material from drama and poetry, works of history, medical tracts, vase painting and sculpture, mythology and ethnology. It considers the high incidence of disability among the ancients; the jobs and lifestyles available to the disabled, and the prejudice, fuelled by religion, that they encountered. It examines how physiognomic principles were used as a way of stereotyping the deformed, the abuse to which they were regularly subjected; the possible medical options and cures; the religious and scientific explanations for the occurrence of congenital deformity, and the widespread belief in the existence of monstrous races.

The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World.