دانلود کتاب The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination

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Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nCONTENTS\nILLUSTRATIONS\nCOLOUR PLATES\nCONTRIBUTORS\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nINTRODUCTION THE FRAGRANT AND THE FOUL: WHAT DID ANTIQUITY SMELL LIKE?\n Smelling the past: Fragrant memories\n Antiquity and the present: An ongoing dialogue\n Smell and the historians: The sensory turn\n Visualizing smell\n New approaches to antique smells\n Notes\n Bibliography\nPART I WHAT SMELL IS THE SACRED? THE SENSORIALITY OF ANTIQUE RITUALS\nCHAPTER 1 ‘UNGUENT FROM A CARVEN JAR’: ODOUR AND PERFUME IN ARTHUR MACHEN’S THE HILL OF DREAMS (1907)\n Notes\n Bibliography\nCHAPTER 2 INCENSE AND PERFUME FOR ISIS: THE SENSORY RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ISIAC RITUAL IN POMPEII IN VISUAL ART1\n The scents of Isiac ritual in Antiquity\n The sensory reconstruction of Isiac ritual in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii\n Tripods and smoke: Suggesting the scents of Isiac cult by iconographic means\n A plurality of olfactive experiences? Isis rituals and their scents\n Polytheistic smells versus monotheistic sobriety\n Notes\n Bibliography\nPART II GENDERED SMELLS AND BODIES\nCHAPTER 3 FROM GORGONS TO GOOP: SCENT THERAPY AND THE SMELL OF TRANSFORMATION IN ANTIQUITY AND THE HOLISTIC HEALTH MOVEMENT\n Methodology and framework\n Scent therapy in ancient medicine\n Medusa, the fumigator of Libya\n Perfumes and aromatic pharmaka in ancient magic\n Scylla’s perfumed transformation\n Aromatherapy in the holistic health movement\n Nicola Hunter’s Harpy bride\n Conclusion\n Notes\n Bibliography\nCHAPTER 4 THE SMELL OF MARBLE: THE WARMTH AND SENSUALITY OF TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CLASSICAL BODIES1\n Introduction\n White as marble? The metamorphoses of classical skin\n The receiver: The effervescence of the senses and the appeal of the classical\n The power of imagination and the smell of marble\n Conclusions\n Notes\n Bibliography\nPART III SENSING OTHERNESS FROM CANVAS TO SCREEN\nCHAPTER 5 SENSING THE PAST: SENSORY STIMULI IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DEPICTIONS OF ROMAN BATHS\n Introduction\n Methods\n Sensing the baths\n A fragmented past\n Conclusion\n Acknowledgements\n Notes\n Bibliography\nCHAPTER 6 EVOKING EMPATHY: SMELL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY RECEPTION OF ANTIQUITY*\n Introduction\n Smell and empathy\n The moving image and the use of the smell-empathy connection\n Case study: The TV-series Rome (2005–7)\n Analysis and conclusions\n Notes\n Bibliography\nPART IV RECREATING THE FRAGRANCE(S) OF THE PAST\nCHAPTER 7 ARCHIVING THE INTANGIBLE: PRESERVING SMELLS, HISTORIC PERFUMES AND OTHER WAYS OF APPROACHING THE SCENTED PAST\n Archives of the scented past\n Approaches to olfactory archives\n The creation of an ‘olfactory image’\n Scent archives as autobiography\n Interpreting the past for the contemporary nose\n Parfum Royal\n Bringing back historic scents: Authenticity and interpretation\n Acknowledgements\n Notes\n Bibliography\nCHAPTER 8 THE ‘PERSISTENCE’ OF AN ANCIENT PERFUME: THE ROSE OF PAESTUM\n The rose of Paestum in Antiquity: From the planting of the flower to the birth of a literary topos\n The survival until modern times of the textual and visual imagination\n Recent attempts to revive the Paestum rose\n Notes\n Bibliography\nCHAPTER 9 THE FRAGRANCE OF ANCIENT KYPHI: AN EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP*\n 1. You have chosen to work on kyphi1: What is special about this perfume? What role did it play in Antiquity?\n 2. Which sources have you worked on?\n 3. We know that ancient texts which detail ‘pharmacological’ preparations, like those which describe kitchen recipes, do not always provide proportions. How much experimentation was required to reconstruct kyphi?\n 4. What can we say about the ‘reliability’ of the results? Did all samples of kyphi smell the same way? Were there local variants, or did recipes develop significant differences over time?\n 5. Have you looked at evocations of kyphi in films and popular culture?\n 6. What are the main differences between kyphi and modern or contemporary perfumes?\n 7. Can these ancient smells still ‘speak’ to modern noses and act on today’s bodies and spirits?\n Notes\n Bibliography\nPART V RE-ENACTING THE FRAGRANCE(S) OF THE PAST\nCHAPTER 10 ‘BALSAMA ET CROCUM PER GRADUS THEATRI FLUERE IUSSIT’ (HA HADR. 19.5): THE CONTEMPORARY RECEPTION OF SMELLS AND SENSES IN THE ROMAN THEATRE*\n Not only saffron: The various odours in Roman theatres and the creation of an elusive but inescapable smellscape (literary and archaeological sources)\n Museography, re-enactment, contemporary reception of ‘theatrical’ smells: The case of the Multimedia and Sensory Museum of the Milan Roman Theatre\n Recreating performances in the smellscape of the Museum of the Milan Roman Theatre and new perspectives afforded by digital methods\n Concluding remarks\n Notes\n Bibliography\nCHAPTER 11 INCENSE ON THE GRASS: A STRONGLY PERFUMED LIBATION BEARERS (1999)1\n Foreword\n Theatre and other medias: An overview of the past\n Modern experiments: Pina Bausch, Marina Abramovicˇ and Trojan Women\n Corporal and unpleasant smells\n Libation Bearers (1999): A musical and perfumed performance\n Notes\n Bibliography\nCHAPTER 12 ‘UNTARNISHED EXPERIENCES?’ RE-ENACTORS AND THEIR APPRAISAL OF SMELL AS GATEWAY INTO THE ANCIENT WORLD\n Notes\n Bibliography\nENVOI ‘SCRATCH AND SNIFF’: RECOVERING AND REDISCOVERING ROMAN AROMAS\n Notes\n Bibliography\nINDEX\nPlates