Sound and the ancient senses /

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Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ©2019
Description:	x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Series:	The senses in antiquity Senses in antiquity.
Subject:	Sound -- Psychological aspects. Sound -- Religious aspects. Senses and sensation -- History. Senses and sensation. Sound -- Psychological aspects. Sound -- Religious aspects. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12674016

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Other authors / contributors:	Butler, Shane, 1970- editor. Nooter, Sarah, editor.
ISBN:	9781138120389 1138120383 9781138481664 1138481661 9781315648248 9781317300427 9781317300434 9781317300410
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres. Sound plays so great a role in shaping our environments as to make it a sounding board for thinking about the self and its connection to others, as well as about space and ecology, emotions and experience, mortality and the divine, orality and textuality. From antiquity to the present day, poets and philosophers have strained to hear the ways that sounds structure our world and identities. This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of sound still shape how and what we hear today. As the first comprehensive introduction to the soundscapes of antiquity, this volume makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning fields of sound and voice studies and is the final volume of the Senses in Antiquity series.
Other form:	Online version: Sound and the ancient senses. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018 9781315648248

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Sounding Hearing / Shane Butler and Sarah Nooter
Part I. Ancient Soundscapes
1. The Sound of the Sacred / Timothy Power
2. Hearing Ancient Sounds Through Modern Ears / Armand D'Angour
3. Sounding Out Public Space in Late Republican Rome / Erika Holter, Susanne Muth, and Sebastian Schwesinger
4. Vocal Expression in Roman Mourning / Valerie Hope
Part II. Theories of Sound
5. Sound : An Aristotelian Perspective / Stephen Kidd
6. Greek Acoustic Theory : Simple and complex sounds / Andrew Barker
7. The Soundscape of Ancient Greek Healing / Colin Webster
8. Lucretius on Sound / Pamela Zinn
Part III. Philology and Sound
9. Gods and Vowels / Joshua T. Katz
10. The Song of the Sirens Between Sound and Sense / Silvia Montiglio
11. Auditory Philology / Sean Gurd
12. Sounds of the Stage / Sarah Nooter
13. The Erogenous Ear / Pauline LeVen
14. Principles of Sound Reading / Shane Butler.

Sound and the ancient senses /

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