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A cultural history of the senses in Antiquity /
"The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in a way that was complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the senses were experienced vividly: cities...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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| Colección: | Cultural history of the senses ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : sensing the ancient past / Jerry Toner
- The social life of the senses : feasts and funerals / David Potter
- Urban sensations : opulence and ordure / Gregory S. Aldrete
- The senses in the marketplace : the luxury market and eastern trade in imperial Rome / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
- The senses in religion : piety, critique, competition / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
- The senses in philosophy and science : five conceptions from Heraclitus to Plato / Ashley Clements
- Medicine and the senses : humors, potions, and spells / Helen King and Jerry Toner
- The senses in literature : falling in love in an ancient Greek novel / Silvia Montiglio
- Art and the senses : the artistry of bodies, stages, and cities in the Greco-Roman world / Mark Bradley
- Sensory media : representation, communication, and performance in ancient literature / Benjamin Eldon Stevens.