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Synaesthesia and the ancient senses / edited by Shane Butler and Alex Purves.
- Title
- Synaesthesia and the ancient senses / edited by Shane Butler and Alex Purves.
- Publication
- Durham, UK : Acumen, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Description
- viii, 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A path-breaking collection launching a new series of books on the senses in antiquity. Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. It offers both a fresh look at society in the ancient world and an opportunity to deepen the reading of classical literature. The book will appeal to readers in classical society and literature, philosophy and cultural history. All Greek and Latin is translated and technical matters are explained for the non-specialist. The introduction sets the ancient senses within the history of aesthetics and the subsequent essays explore the senses throughout the classical period and on to the modern reception of classical literature.
- Series Statement
- The senses in antiquity
- Uniform Title
- Senses in antiquity
- Alternative Title
- Synesthesia and the ancient senses
- Subject
- Senses and sensation > History
- Aesthetics, Ancient
- Perceptual disorders
- Perceptual Disorders
- Esthetics > history
- History, Ancient
- Sens et sensations > Histoire
- Esthétique ancienne
- Troubles de la perception
- Senses and sensation
- Synästhesie
- Antike
- Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
- Griechisch
- Latein
- Literatur
- Synästhesie
- Senses and sensation > History
- Aesthetics, Ancient
- Griechenland Altertum
- Römisches Reich
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Why are there nine muses? / James I. Porter -- Haptic Herodotus / Alex Purves -- The understanding ear : synaesthesia, paraesthesia and talking animals / Mark Payne -- Aristophanes, Cratinus and the smell of comedy / Mario Telò -- "Looking mustard" : Greek popular epistemology and the meaning of Drimys / Ashley Clements -- Plato, beauty and "philosophical synaesthesia" / Ralph M. Rosen -- Manilius' cosmos of the senses / Katharina Volk -- Reading death and the senses in Lucan and Lucretius / Brian Walters -- Colour as synaesthetic experience in antiquity / Mark Bradley -- Blinded by the light : oratorical clarity and poetic obscurity in Quintilian / Curtis Dozier -- The sense of a poem : Ovids banquet of sence (1595) / Sean Keilen -- Saussure's Anaphonie : sounds asunder / Joshua T. Katz -- Beyond Narcissus / Shane Butler.
- ISBN
- 9781844655618
- 184465561X
- 9781844655625
- 1844655628
- LCCN
- 2014453471
- OCLC
- 827261947
- SCSB-10977792
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library