Rudolph Taste and the Ancient Senses

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-51541-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 310 Seiten

Reihe: The Senses in Antiquity

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudolph, Kelli C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: On the Tip of the Tongue: Making Sense of Ancient Taste

Kelli C. Rudolph

1. Tastes of Greek Poetry: From Homer to Aristophanes

Sarah Hitch

2. Tastes of Reality: Epistemology and the Senses in Ancient Philosophy

Kelli C. Rudolph

3. Tastes in Ancient Botany, Medicine and Science: Bitter Herbs and Sweet Honey

Laurence Totelin

4. Tastes of Homer: Matro’s Gastroaesthetic Tour Through Epic

Mario Telò

5. Tasting the Roman World

Emily Gowers

6. Tastes from Beyond: Persephone's Pomegranate and Otherworldly Consumption in Antiquity

Meredith J. C. Warren

7. Tastes of Roman Italy: Early Roman Expansion and Taste Articulation

Laura Banducci

8. Tastes and Digestion: Archaeology and Medicine in Roman Italy

Patricia Baker

9. Tastes of Meat in Antiquity: Integrating the Textual and Zooarchaeological Evidence

Michael MacKinnon

10. Tastes in the Roman Provinces: An Archaeobotanical Approach to Socio-Cultural Change

Alexandra Livarda

11. Tastes of Wine: Sensorial Wine Analysis in Ancient Greece

Thibaut Boulay

12. Tastes of the Extraordinary: Flavour Lists in Imperial Rome

John Paulas

13. Tastes of Danger and Pleasure in Early and Late Antique Christianity

Béatrice Caseau

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kelli C. Rudolph is Lecturer in Classics and Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She has research interests in ancient perceptual theories and the relationship between Presocratic and Hellenistic philosophy, and is currently working on theoretical approaches to the senses in antiquity.