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Smell and the Ancient Senses

Smell and the Ancient Senses

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Produktbeskrivelse

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 the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural 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.

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Funktioner

Type

Papirbog

Genre

Historie

Sprogversion

Engelsk

Bogomslagstype

Paperback

Antal sider

248 Sider

Anbefalet alder

Voksen

Foreslået køn

Ethvert køn

Udgiver

Routledge

Udgivelsesdato

12/2014

Udgivelsesår

2014

International standard bookingnummer (ISBN)

9781844656424

Vægt & størrelser

Bredde

172 mm

Dybde

9,9 mm

Højde

244 mm

Smell and the Ancient Senses

441 kr.

441 kr.

På lager

Ons., 9 apr. - tirs., 15 apr.


Sikker betaling

14 dages åbent køb


Sælges og leveres af

Adlibris