Synaesthesia and the ancient senses / 
edited by Shane Butler and Alex Purves. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) :  digital, PDF file(s). 
 - The senses in antiquity .
 - Senses in antiquity. .
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<br/><br/> Why are there nine muses? /  Haptic Herodotus /  The understanding ear : synaesthesia, paraesthesia and talking animals /  Aristophanes, Cratinus and the smell of comedy /  "Looking mustard" : Greek popular epistemology and the meaning of Drimys /  Plato, beauty and "philosophical synaesthesia" /  Manilius' cosmos of the senses /  Reading death and the senses in Lucan and Lucretius /  Colour as synaesthetic experience in antiquity /  Blinded by the light : oratorical clarity and poetic obscurity in Quintilian /  The sense of a poem : Ovids banquet of sence (1595) /  Saussure's Anaphonie : sounds asunder /  Beyond Narcissus /  James I. Porter --  Alex Purves --  Mark Payne --  Mario Telò --  Ashley Clements --  Ralph M. Rosen --  Katharina Volk --  Brian Walters --  Mark Bradley --  Curtis Dozier --  Sean Keilen --  Joshua T. Katz --  Shane Butler. 
<br/><br/> 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, 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. This book will appeal to readers interested n classical society and literature, philosophy, and social 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781844655632 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Senses and sensation--History.<br/>Aesthetics, Ancient.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD214  / .S96 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>152.189093