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Sound and the Ancient Senses (Hardcover)
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Sound and the Ancient Senses (Hardcover)
Series: The Senses in Antiquity
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Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is
experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence
has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses
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. Sound 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. This 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, The Senses in Antiquity.
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