The Senses In Antiquity Paperback Set: The Senses In Antiquity: Taste And The Ancient Senses

"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."--Provided by publisher The Sense Of Taste Is At Once Highly Individual And Deeply Cultural. Taste Is A Functional Sense, So Closely Tied With The Physical Necessity For Food That It Is Frequently Characterised Among The Lower, Bodily Sensations. Assumed To Operate On A Primitive, Nearly Instinctual Level, Taste Requires Intimate Interaction With Its Objects Of Perception, Which Enter The Mouth, Pass Through The Throat And Eventually Become Part Of The Perceiver. Taste And The Ancient Senses Explores The Use Of Taste Metaphors In Graeco-roman Literature, Which Provides Us With A Window Into Their Own Theorising About Taste. The Values And Meaning Of Tastes, Food And Eating Are Also Revealed Through Cultural Practices And Habits Which Are Accessible To Us Through The Literary, Historical And Material Record. It Is In These Contexts That We Can Examine The Symbolic Function And Social Values That Surround The Tastes The Greeks And Romans Embrace And Reject--publisher Description. Introduction: On The Tip Of The Tongue : Making Sense Of Ancient Taste / Kelli C. Rudolph -- Tastes Of Greek Poetry : From Homer To Aristophanes / Sarah Hitch -- Tastes Of Reality : Epistemology And The Senses In Ancient Philosophy / Kelli C. Rudolph -- Tastes In Ancient Botany, Medicine And Science : Bitter Herbs And Sweet Honey / Laurence Totelin -- Tastes Of Homer : Matro's Gastroaesthetic Tour Through Epic / Mario Telò -- Tasting The Roman World / Emily Gowers -- Tastes From Beyond : Persephone's Pomegranate And Otherworldly Consumption In Antiquity / Meredith J. C. Warren -- Tastes Of Roman Italy : Early Roman Expansion And Taste Articulation / Laura Banducci -- Tastes And Digestion : Archaeology And Medicine In Roman Italy / Patricia Baker -- Tastes Of Meat In Antiquity : Integrating The Textual And Zooarchaeological Evidence / Michael Mackinnon -- Tastes In The Roman Provinces : An Archaeobotanical Approach To Socio-cultural Change / Alexandra Livarda -- Tastes Of Wine : Sensorial Wine Analysis In Ancient Greece / Thibaut Boulay -- Tastes Of The Extraordinary : Flavour Lists In Imperial Rome / John Paulas -- Tastes Of Danger And Pleasure In Early And Late Antique Christianity / Béatrice Caseau. Edited By Kelli C. Rudolph. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. DedicationList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: On the Tip of the Tongue: Making Sense of Ancient TasteKelli C. Rudolph1. Tastes of Greek Poetry: From Homer to Aristophanes Sarah Hitch2. Tastes of Reality: Epistemology and the Senses in Ancient PhilosophyKelli C. Rudolph3. Tastes in Ancient Botany, Medicine and Science: Bitter Herbs and Sweet HoneyLaurence Totelin4. Tastes of Homer: Matro's Gastroaesthetic Tour Through EpicMario Telo5. Tasting the Roman World Emily Gowers6. Tastes from Beyond: Persephone's Pomegranate and Otherworldly Consumption in AntiquityMeredith J. C. Warren7. Tastes of Roman Italy: Early Roman Expansion and Taste ArticulationLaura Banducci8. Tastes and Digestion: Archaeology and Medicine in Roman ItalyPatricia Baker 9. Tastes of Meat in Antiquity: Integrating the Textual and Zooarchaeological EvidenceMichael MacKinnon 10. Tastes in the Roman Provinces: An Archaeobotanical Approach to Socio-Cultural ChangeAlexandra Livarda11. Tastes of Wine: Sensorial Wine Analysis in Ancient GreeceThibaut Boulay12. Tastes of the Extraordinary: Flavour Lists in Imperial Rome John Paulas 13. Tastes of Danger and Pleasure in Early and Late Antique ChristianityBeatrice CaseauBibliography Index