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Taste and the Ancient Senses

✍ Scribed by Kelli C. Rudolph (ed)

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
308
Series
The Senses in Antiquity
Category
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✦ Table of Contents

Contents (vii)......Page 6
Figures (ix)......Page 8
Tables (x)......Page 9
Notes on Contributors (xi)......Page 10
Acknowledgements (xiii)......Page 12
Introduction: On the tip of the tongue: making sense of ancient taste (1)......Page 13
1. Tastes of Greek Poetry—From Homer to Aristophanes (22)......Page 34
2. Tastes of Reality—Epistemology and the senses in ancient philosophy (45)......Page 57
3. Tastes in Ancient Botany, Medicine and Science—Bitter herbs and sweet honey (60)......Page 72
4. Tastes of Homer—Matro's gastroaesthetic tour through epic (72)......Page 84
5. Tasting the Roman World (90)......Page 102
6. Tastes from Beyond—Persephone's pomegranate and otherworldly consumption in antiquity (104)......Page 116
7. Tastes of Roman Italy—Early Roman expansion and taste articulation (120)......Page 132
8. Tastes and Digestion—Archaeology and medicine in Roman Italy (138)......Page 150
9. Tastes of Meat Antiquity—Integrating the textual and zooarchaeological evidence (161)......Page 173
10. Tastes in the Roman Provinces—An archaeobotanical approach to socio-cultural change (179)......Page 191
11. Tastes of Wine—Sensorial wine analysis in ancient Greece (197)......Page 209
12. Tastes of the Extraordinary—Flavour lists in Imperial Rome (212)......Page 224
13. Tastes of Danger and Pleasure in Early and Late Antique Christianity (228)......Page 240
Bibliography (244)......Page 256
Index (280)......Page 292

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