{"product_id":"sound-and-the-ancient-senses-9781138120389","title":"Sound and the Ancient Senses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. \u003ci\u003eSound and the Ancient Senses\u003c\/i\u003e aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSound plays so great a role in shaping our environments as to make it a crucial sounding board for thinking about space and ecology, emotions and experience, mortality and the divine, orality and textuality, and the self and its connection to others. From antiquity to the present day, poets and philosophers have strained to hear the ways that sounds structure our world and identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of sound still shape how and what we hear today. As the first comprehensive introduction to the soundscapes of antiquity, this volume makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning fields of sound and voice studies and is the final volume of the series, \u003cem\u003eThe Senses in Antiquity\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A superb guide to the burgeoning field of sound studies and a fitting capstone to the hugely successful series, \u003ci\u003eThe Senses in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e. The range covered is as wide as classical antiquity itself: from embodied, urban, and literary soundscapes to noises emitted by objects to animal cries and intelligible voices to numinous and cosmic echoes, all of this at various pitches and decibel levels, likewise running from the sound of silence to silencing sounds. Antiquity will never sound the same again.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eJames Porter, University of California, Berkeley, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The volume will be important to scholars and students of the ancient senses, especially those that have been following this series and those with special interests in the acoustical past... the cumulative effect of the volume is quite dazzling as it amplifies the sonorous registers of our textual remains and recovers the acoustical residues of ancient experiences of sound.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An essential read for all those interested in the ‘soundscape’ of Antiquity – from rites to the human body, the physiology of hearing, myth, music on the stage, ancient emotions and contemporary attempts to reconstruct ancient sounds –, the volume offers a broad perspective on sounds and hearing... Thanks to the rich variety of views on sound and the ‘soundscapes’ in ancient Greece and Rome, this volume establishes itself as a staple in future research on sounds and their perception, and on acoustics and society in the Graeco-Roman world.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eGreek and Roman Musical Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Sounding hearing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Ancient Soundscapes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The sound of the sacred\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Hearing ancient sounds through modern ears \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Sounding out public space in Late Republican Rome \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Vocal expression in Roman mourning \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Theories of Sound \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Sound: an Aristotelian perspective \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Greek acoustic theory: Simple and complex sounds \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. The soundscape of ancient Greek healing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Lucretius on sound \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Philology and Sound \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Gods and vowels \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. The song of the Sirens between sound and sense \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Auditory philology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Sounds of the stage \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. The erogenous ear \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Principles of sound reading\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577806590295,"sku":"9781138120389","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138120389.jpg?v=1746096775","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sound-and-the-ancient-senses-9781138120389","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}