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Classical Philology New and Forthcoming Titles Distributor of Scholarly Books Classical Philology New and Forthcoming Titles New Series from Acumen Publishing! The Senses in Antiquity Like us, ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand their world through their senses. And yet it has long been recognized that the world the ancients perceived, and the senses through which they channeled this information, could operate rather differently from the patterns and processes of perception in the modern world. This series explores the relationship between perception, knowledge, and understanding in the literature, philosophy, history, language, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Smell and the Synaesthesia and Ancient Senses the Ancient Senses edited by Mark Bradley edited by Shane Butler The first comprehensive and Alex Purves introduction to the role Presents a radical of smell in the history, reappraisal of antiquity’s literature and society of textures, flavors, and classical antiquity, Smell aromas, sounds, and and the Ancient Senses sights. It offers both a examines the ways in fresh look at society in which the olfactory sense the ancient world and an contributed to our perceptions of bodies, environments, opportunity to deepen the reading of classical literature. behavior, and morality. All Greek and Latin is translated and technical matters 256p (Acumen Publishing, December 2013, are explained for the non-specialist. The introduction sets The Senses in Antiquity) the ancient senses within the history of aesthetics and paperback, 9781844656424, $29.95. 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