Smell and the ancient senses
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Smell and the ancient senses
（The senses in antiquity）
Routledge, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-199) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell-a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic-has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets.
The cultural study of smell has largely focused on pollution, transgression and propriety, but the olfactory sense came into play in a wide range of domains and activities: ancient medicine and philosophy, religion, botany and natural history, erotic literature, urban planning, dining, satire and comedy-where odours, aromas, scents and stenches were rich and versatile components of the ancient sensorium. The first comprehensive introduction to the role of smell in the history, literature and society of classical antiquity, Smell and the Ancient Senses explores and probes the ways that the olfactory sense can contribute to our perceptions of ancient life, behaviour, identity and morality.
目次
Introduction: smell and the ancient senses
Smell as sign and cure in ancient medicine
Ancient philosophers on the sense of smell
Divine scents and presence
Smelling trees, flowers and herbs in the ancient world
Making scents of poetry
Roman urban smells: the archaeological evidence
Urban smells and Roman noses
The scent of Roman dining
Foul bodies in ancient Rome
Fragrance in the Rabbinic world
The smell of Christianity
Missing noses
Bibliography
Index
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