Sound and the ancient senses
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Sound and the ancient senses
（The senses in antiquity）
Routledge, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres.
Sound plays so great a role in shaping our environments as to make it a crucial sounding board for thinking about space and ecology, emotions and experience, mortality and the divine, orality and textuality, and the self and its connection to others. From antiquity to the present day, poets and philosophers have strained to hear the ways that sounds structure our world and identities.
This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of sound still shape how and what we hear today. As the first comprehensive introduction to the soundscapes of antiquity, this volume makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning fields of sound and voice studies and is the final volume of the series, The Senses in Antiquity.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Sounding hearing
Part I. Ancient Soundscapes
1. The sound of the sacred
2. Hearing ancient sounds through modern ears
3. Sounding out public space in Late Republican Rome
4. Vocal expression in Roman mourning
Part II. Theories of Sound
5. Sound: an Aristotelian perspective
6. Greek acoustic theory: Simple and complex sounds
7. The soundscape of ancient Greek healing
8. Lucretius on sound
Part III. Philology and Sound
9. Gods and vowels
10. The song of the Sirens between sound and sense
11. Auditory philology
12. Sounds of the stage
13. The erogenous ear
14. Principles of sound reading
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