aesthetic
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Albert Skira
alex
ancient aesthetics
Ancient Colour
Animal Kingdom
Austere Moments
automatic-update
B01=Alex Purves
B01=Shane Butler
butler
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSBB
Category=HBLA1
Category=NHC
Category=QDHA
Category=QDTN
Chapman's Poem
Chapman’s Poem
classical cultural history
classical sensory perception
COP=United Kingdom
Dark Places
Defensive Strategy
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Dragon's Blood
Dragon’s Blood
Drawing Back
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Equal Persuasiveness
experience
Garlic Sauce
Gold Cups
Greek Roman philosophy
Inter-species Communication
Language_English
literary sensory analysis
mario
Marius Gratidianus
Mental Torments
Mirror Stage
Mt Etna
multisensory integration
Musical Soundness
Ovids Banquet
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
purves
Robust Appraisal
sausage
Sausage Seller
seller
sensory experience in antiquity
shane
softlaunch
Student's Assertion
Student’s Assertion
Ta Kala
tel
Vice Versa
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781844655625
- Weight: 424g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in the study of antiquity and, when the senses are examined, sight is regularly privileged. '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 explores the senses throughout the classical period and on to the modern reception of classical literature.
Shane Butler is Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, most recently, of The Ancient Phonograph (2015), and editor of Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception (2016). He is also co-editor, with Mark Bradley, of this series, as well as being co-editor, with Alex Purves, of its first volume, Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (2013).
Alex Purves is Professor of Classics at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative (2010) and co-editor, with Shane Butler, of Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (2013), published in this "Senses in Antiquity" series. Her most recent book, Homer and the Poetics of Gesture, is forthcoming.
