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Book SynopsisJerry Toner is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of
Leisure and Ancient Rome (1995),
Popular Culture in Ancient Rome (2009),
Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East (2013) and
Roman Disasters (2013).
Trade ReviewAs part of Classen’s larger series, the book will be a desirable addition to student-focused libraries ... Toner’s volume succeeds in demonstrating how “antiquity ... was a period when the senses were experienced vividly". * Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sensing the Ancient Past
Jerry Toner (University of Cambridge, UK) 1. The Social Life of the Senses: Feasts and Funerals
David Potter (University of Michigan, USA) 2. Urban Sensations: Opulence and Ordure
Gregory S. Aldrete (University of Wisconsin, USA) 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: The Luxury Market and Eastern Trade in Ancient Rome
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (University of Cambridge, UK) 4. The Senses in Religion: Piety, Critique, Competition
Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University, USA) 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Five Conceptions from Heraclitus to Plato
Ashley Clements (Trinity College Dublin, UK) 6. Medicine and the Senses: Humours, Potions and Spells
Helen King (The Open University, UK) and Jerry Toner (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. The Senses in Literature: Falling in Love in an Ancient Greek Novel
Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins Universitry, USA) 8. Art and the Senses: The Artistry of Bodies, Stages and Cities in the Greco-Roman World
Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham, UK) 9. Sensory Media: Representation, Communication, and Performance in Ancient Literature Benjamin Stevens
(Hollins University, USA) Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
