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Taste and the Ancient Senses (Paperback)
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Taste and the Ancient Senses (Paperback)
Series: The Senses in Antiquity
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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.
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