Ellen Adams is Senior Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at King's College London, UK. She has published extensively on Minoan Crete, including a book entitled Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete: Social Dynamics in the Neopalatial Period (2017, CUP). For many years, she has also investigated how a dialogue between disability studies and Classics might enhance both disciplines.

List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Foreword by Lennard J. Davies; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. 'Disability studies and the classical body: the forgotten other. Introduction', Ellen Adams; Part 1. Communicating and controlling impairment, illness and pain; Introduction, Ellen Adams; Chapter 2. Two troubles: the dramatic tragedy of Western medicine, Michael J. Flexer and Brian Hurwitz; Chapter 3. 'There is a pain - so utter': Narrating chronic pain and disability in antiquity and modernity, Georgia Petridou; Part 2. Using, creating and showcasing disability supports and services; Introduction, Ellen Adams; Chapter 4. Prostheses in classical antiquity: a taxonomy, Jane Draycott; Chapter 5. Displaying the forgotten other in museums: prostheses at the National Museums Scotland, Sophie Goggins; Chapter 6. New light on 'the viewer': sensing the Parthenon galleries in the British Museum, Ellen Adams; Part 3. Real bodies and retrieving senses: disability in the ritual record; Introduction, Ellen Adams; Chapter 7. Interactional sensibilities: bringing ancient disability studies to its archaeological senses, Emma-Jayne Graham; Chapter 8. Rational capacity and incomplete adults: the mentally impaired in classical antiquity, Patricia Baker and Sarah Francis; Part 4: Classical reception as the gateway between Classics and disability studies; Introduction, Ellen Adams; 9. The immortal forgotten other gang: dwarf Cedalion, lame Hephaestus, and blind Orion, Edith Hall; 10. A history of our own? Using Classics in disability histories, Helen King; Index