Taste and the Ancient Senses

✍ Scribed by Kelli C. Rudolph

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM);Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Series: The senses in antiquity
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

DedicationList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: On the Tip of the Tongue: Making Sense of Ancient TasteKelli C. Rudolph1. Tastes of Greek Poetry: From Homer to Aristophanes Sarah Hitch2. Tastes of Reality: Epistemology and the Senses in Ancient PhilosophyKelli C. Rudolph3. Tastes in Ancient Botany, Medicine and Science: Bitter Herbs and Sweet HoneyLaurence Totelin4. Tastes of Homer: Matro's Gastroaesthetic Tour Through EpicMario Telo5. Tasting the Roman World Emily Gowers6. Tastes from Beyond: Persephone's Pomegranate and Otherworldly Consumption in AntiquityMeredith J. C. Warren7. Tastes of Roman Italy: Early Roman Expansion and Taste ArticulationLaura Banducci8. Tastes and Digestion: Archaeology and Medicine in Roman ItalyPatricia Baker 9. Tastes of Meat in Antiquity: Integrating the Textual and Zooarchaeological EvidenceMichael MacKinnon 10. Tastes in the Roman Provinces: An Archaeobotanical Approach to Socio-Cultural ChangeAlexandra Livarda11. Tastes of Wine: Sensorial Wine Analysis in Ancient GreeceThibaut Boulay12. Tastes of the Extraordinary: Flavour Lists in Imperial Rome John Paulas 13. Tastes of Danger and Pleasure in Early and Late Antique ChristianityBeatrice CaseauBibliography Index