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CONTENTS
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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
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