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Taste and the Ancient Senses

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Taste and the Ancient Senses

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Taste and the Ancient Senses book

Taste and the Ancient Senses

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Taste and the Ancient Senses book

ByKelli C. Rudolph
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 15 August 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315719245
Pages 310
eBook ISBN 9781315719245
Subjects Humanities
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Rudolph, K.C. (Ed.). (2017). Taste and the Ancient Senses (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315719245

ABSTRACT

Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity to provide answers to these central questions.

By surveying and probing the literary and material remains from the Archaic period to late antiquity, contributors investigate the cultural and intellectual development towards attitudes and theories about taste. These specially commissioned chapters also open a window onto ancient thinking about perception and the body. Importantly, these authors go beyond exploring the functional significance of taste to uncover its value and meaning in the actions, thoughts and words of the Greeks and Romans. Taste and the Ancient Senses presents a full range of interpretative approaches to the gustatory sense, and provides an indispensable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity and sensory studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

On the tip of the tongue: making sense of ancient taste
ByKelli C. Rudolph

chapter 1|23 pages

Tastes of Greek poetry

From Homer to Aristophanes
BySarah Hitch

chapter 2|15 pages

Tastes of reality

Epistemology and the senses in ancient philosophy
ByKelli C. Rudolph

chapter 3|12 pages

Tastes in ancient botany, medicine and science

Bitter herbs and sweet honey
ByLaurence B. Totelin

chapter 4|18 pages

Tastes of Homer

Matro’s gastroaesthetic tour through epic
ByMario Telò

chapter 5|14 pages

Tasting the Roman world

ByEmily Gowers

chapter 6|16 pages

Tastes from beyond

Persephone’s pomegranate and otherworldly consumption in antiquity
ByMeredith J. C. Warren

chapter 7|18 pages

Tastes of Roman Italy

Early Roman expansion and taste articulation
ByLaura M. Banducci

chapter 8|23 pages

Tastes and digestion

Archaeology and medicine in Roman Italy
ByPatricia Baker

chapter 9|18 pages

Tastes of meat in antiquity

Integrating the textual and zooarchaeological evidence
ByMichael MacKinnon

chapter 10|18 pages

Tastes in the Roman provinces

An archaeobotanical approach to socio-cultural change
ByAlexandra Livarda

chapter 11|15 pages

Tastes of wine

Sensorial wine analysis in ancient Greece
ByThibaut Boulay

chapter 12|16 pages

Tastes of the extraordinary

Flavour lists in Imperial Rome
ByJohn Paulas

chapter 13|16 pages

Tastes of danger and pleasure in early and late antique Christianity

ByBéatrice Caseau
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