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Siting the Body
footnote 12

Vernant, J-P. Dim body, dazzling body, in Feher, M. (Ed.), Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Zone, N.Y., 1989, 1: 21. Vernant reads `corporeity' in archaic Greek as not acknowledging a distinction between body and soul, nor the notion of an organic unity of vital and mental functions. Other terms mentioned by Vernant include demas - stature, size, build: as the erection of a construction of superimposed rows; eidos and phue - carriage, imposing appearance; and chros - body, skin, external envelope, flesh-tint, complexion; guia - bodily members in their suppleness and articulated mobility; melea - limbs as bearers of force.