• Medicina nei secoli · Jan 2006

    Historical Article

    [The child who will never grow].

    • Véronique Dasen.
    • Département des Sciences de l'Antiquité, Université de Fribourg, Suisse, CH.
    • Med Secoli. 2006 Jan 1;18(2):431-57.

    AbstractThe evolution of the status of dwarfs in the Hellenistic and Roman period is witnessed by a number of evidence, mainly iconographic. This paper revisits extant representations at the light of ancient medical texts and physiognomics. Most objects relate short-statured people with the world of entertainement (musicians, athletes) and reveal their continuing function as good-luck bringers.

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