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- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Imagines - classical receptions in the visual and performing arts
- Uniform Title
- Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
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- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 12, 2022).
- Contents
- Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- COLOUR PLATES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION THE FRAGRANT AND THE FOUL: WHAT DID ANTIQUITY SMELL LIKE? -- Smelling the past: Fragrant memories -- Antiquity and the present: An ongoing dialogue -- Smell and the historians: The sensory turn -- Visualizing smell -- New approaches to antique smells -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I WHAT SMELL IS THE SACRED? THE SENSORIALITY OF ANTIQUE RITUALS
- CHAPTER 1 'UNGUENT FROM A CARVEN JAR': ODOUR AND PERFUME IN ARTHUR MACHEN'S THE HILL OF DREAMS (1907) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 2 INCENSE AND PERFUME FOR ISIS: THE SENSORY RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ISIAC RITUAL IN POMPEII IN VISUAL ART1 -- The scents of Isiac ritual in Antiquity -- The sensory reconstruction of Isiac ritual in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii -- Tripods and smoke: Suggesting the scents of Isiac cult by iconographic means -- A plurality of olfactive experiences? Isis rituals and their scents -- Polytheistic smells versus monotheistic sobriety -- Notes
- White as marble? The metamorphoses of classical skin -- The receiver: The effervescence of the senses and the appeal of the classical -- The power of imagination and the smell of marble -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART III SENSING OTHERNESS FROM CANVAS TO SCREEN -- CHAPTER 5 SENSING THE PAST: SENSORY STIMULI IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DEPICTIONS OF ROMAN BATHS -- Introduction -- Methods -- Sensing the baths -- A fragmented past -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 6 EVOKING EMPATHY: SMELL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY RECEPTION OF ANTIQUITY*
- Introduction -- Smell and empathy -- The moving image and the use of the smell-empathy connection -- Case study: The TV-series Rome (2005-7) -- Analysis and conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART IV RECREATING THE FRAGRANCE(S) OF THE PAST -- CHAPTER 7 ARCHIVING THE INTANGIBLE: PRESERVING SMELLS, HISTORIC PERFUMES AND OTHER WAYS OF APPROACHING THE SCENTED PAST -- Archives of the scented past -- Approaches to olfactory archives -- The creation of an 'olfactory image' -- Scent archives as autobiography -- Interpreting the past for the contemporary nose -- Parfum Royal
- ISBN
- 9781350169753
- 1350169757
- 9781350169739
- 1350169730
- 9781350169746
- 1350169749
- LCCN
- 2021029887
- OCLC
- 2021029887
- Title
The smells and senses of antiquity in the modern imagination / edited by Adeline Grand-Clément and Charlotte Riberyrol.
- Publisher
London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Copyright Date
©2022
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Imagines - classical receptions in the visual and performing arts
Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 12, 2022).
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- Added Author
Grand-Clément, Adeline, 1977- editor.
Ribeyrol, Charlotte, editor.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Smells and senses of antiquity in the modern imagination New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 9781350169722 (DLC) 2021029886