Smell and the ancient senses / edited by Mark Bradley.
Bradley, Mark, 1977- editor.
2015
QP458 .S64 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Smell and the ancient senses / edited by Mark Bradley.
ISBN 9781844656424 (paperback)
184465642X (paperback)
9781844656417 (hardcover)
1844656411 (hardcover)
9781315736051 (electronic book)
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Language English
Description xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Call Number QP458 .S64 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 612.8/6
Summary From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell - a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic - has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets. The cultural study of smell has largely focused on pollution, transgression and propriety, but the olfactory sense came into play in a wide range of domains and activities: ancient medicine and philosophy, religion, botany and natural history, erotic literature, urban planning, dining, satire and comedy - where odours, aromas, scents and stenches were rich and versatile components of the ancient sensorium. The first comprehensive introduction to the role of smell in the history, literature and society of classical antiquity, Smell and the Ancient Senses explores and probes the ways that the olfactory sense can contribute to our perceptions of ancient life, behaviour, identity and morality. -- from back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
Added Author Bradley, Mark, 1977- editor.
Series Senses in antiquity.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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The smell of Christianity / Jerry Toner
Missing noses / Mark Bradley and Eric Varner.

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