Blind people in Rome were seen as capable to provide and care for themselves as any other Roman citizen. One of the few exceptions was will writing, as without the ability to see, multiple witnesses had to be present.

The earliest Roman coins depicted Justitia with the sword in one hand and the scale in the other, but with her eyes uncovered. [8] Justitia was only commonly represented as "blind" since the middle of the 16th century.

EXPLORING VISUAL IMPAIRMENT IN ANCIENT ROME Lisa Trentin 1. VisualImpairmentintheClassicalWorld Blindness and varying degrees of visual impairment were widespread in the ancient Greco-Roman world. But how did the ancients understand visual impairment? How did they explain the causes and e fects of …

Haüy’s methods would become the model adopted by educators of the blind for the next half century. Raised Roman letters were very inefficient to read, however, and Haüy wanted a system that looked attractive to the sighted as much as he was interested in …

The theme of blindness has been explored by many different cultures throughout history, with blind characters appearing in stories from ancient Greek mythology and Judeo-Christian religious texts. In the modern era, blindness has featured in numerous works of literature and poetry by authors such as William Shakespeare , William Blake , and H ...

urvival for those who were born with a handicap. It covers the various sorts of disability: mental problems, blindness, deafness and deaf-muteness, speech impairment and mobility impairment, and includes discussions of famous instances of disability from the ancient world, such as the madness of Emperor Caligula, the stutterin.

Ancient Romans with disabilities were recorded in the personal, medical, and legal writing of the period. While some disabled people were sought as slaves, others with disabilities that are now recognized by modern medicine were not considered disabled.

Jan 1, 2013 · Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome A Nexus of Disability in Ancient Greek Miracle Stories: A Comparison of Accounts of Blindness from the Asklepieion in Epidauros and the Shrine of Thecla in Seleucia

Sep 4, 1997 · This is an interesting, wide-ranging study of disabled and deformed people in the Ancient World. As the title implies, it looks primarily at how society—”the Beholder”—viewed the disabled, their legal, social and economic status, more than how the disabled viewed themselves.

Dec 13, 2013 · Nicole Kelley's essay "Deformity and Disability in Greece and Rome," which is part of the edited volume This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities and Biblical Studies, offers an interesting and brief engagement with disabilities and deformities in classical antiquity.