Multisensory Living In Ancient Rome
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Multisensory Living In Ancient Rome
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Author : Hannah Platts
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Multisensory Living In Ancient Rome written by Hannah Platts and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with Social Science categories.
Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these questions, Hannah Platts draws on a diverse range of evidence and an innovative amalgamation of methodological approaches to explore multisensory experience – auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory and visual – in domestic environments in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum for the first time, from the first century BCE to the second century CE. Moving between social registers and locations, from non-elite urban dwellings to lavish country villas, each chapter takes the reader through a different type of room and offers insights into the reasons, emotions and cultural factors behind perception, recording and control of bodily senses in the home, as well as their sociological implications. Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome will appeal to all students and researchers interested in Roman daily life and domestic architecture.
Senses Of The Empire
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Author : Eleanor Betts
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-02-24
Senses Of The Empire written by Eleanor Betts and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-24 with History categories.
The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of human behaviour, this volume develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology and ancient history. Authors explore questions such as: what it felt like, and symbolised, to be showered with saffron at the amphitheatre; why the shape of a dancer’s body made him immediately recognisable as a social outcast; how the dramatic gestures, loud noises and unforgettable smells of a funeral would have different meanings for members of the family and for bystanders; and why feeling the weight of a signet ring on his finger contributed to a man’s sense of identity. A multisensory approach is taken throughout, with each chapter exploring at least two of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The contributors’ individual approaches vary, reflecting the possibilities and the wide application of sensory studies to the ancient world. Underlying all chapters is a conviction that taking a multisensory approach enriches our understanding of the Roman empire, but also an awareness of the methodological problems encountered when reconstructing past experiences.
Everyday Life In Ancient Rome
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Author : Neil Grant
language : en
Publisher: McRae Books
Release Date : 2005
Everyday Life In Ancient Rome written by Neil Grant and has been published by McRae Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A colourful book with acetate overlays that shows children how ancient Roman people lived and worked, their food, their houses and apartments, and where they shopped. It also describes what they did for leisure and entertainment, and shows how some of their famous engineering works were achieved.
Music Politics And Society In Ancient Rome
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Author : Harry Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-30
Music Politics And Society In Ancient Rome written by Harry Morgan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with History categories.
Demonstrates the importance of music in ancient Roman political culture and social relations.
Analysing The Boundaries Of The Ancient Roman Garden
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Author : Victoria Austen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-09
Analysing The Boundaries Of The Ancient Roman Garden written by Victoria Austen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-09 with History categories.
This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from across literature and material and visual culture, Victoria Austen explores the perception of individual garden sites in response to their limits, and showcases how the Romans delighted in playing with concepts of boundedness and separation. Transculturally, the garden is understood as a marked-off and cultivated space. Distinct from their surroundings, gardens are material and symbolic spaces that constitute both universal and culturally specific ways of accommodating the natural world and expressing human attitudes and values. Although we define these spaces explicitly through the notions of separation and division, in many cases we are unable to make sense of the most basic distinction between 'garden' and 'not-garden'. In response to this ambiguity, Austen interrogates the notion of the 'boundary' as an essential characteristic of the Roman garden.
Housing In The Ancient Mediterranean World
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Author : J. A. Baird
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-21
Housing In The Ancient Mediterranean World written by J. A. Baird and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-21 with Architecture categories.
Explores the possible dialogues between textual and archaeological sources in studying housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.
The Smells And Senses Of Antiquity In The Modern Imagination
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Author : Adeline Grand-Clément
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-16
The Smells And Senses Of Antiquity In The Modern Imagination written by Adeline Grand-Clément and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with History categories.
This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity. Among the senses olfaction in particular has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature, which makes this sense difficult to apprehend in its past instantiations. And yet, the smells associated with a given figure or social group convey a rich imagery which in turn connotes specific values: perfumes, scents and foul odours both reflect and mould the ways in which a society thinks or acts. Smells also help to distinguish between male and female, citizens and strangers, and play an important role during rituals. The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination focuses on the representation of ancient smells - both enticing and repugnant - in the visual and performative arts from the late 18th century up to the 21st century. The individual contributions explore painting, sculpture, literature and film, but also theatrical performance, museum exhibitions, advertising, television series, historical reenactment and graphic novels, which have all played a part in reshaping modern audiences' perceptions and experiences of the antique.
Shaping Roman Landscape
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Author : Mantha Zarmakoupi
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2023-08-08
Shaping Roman Landscape written by Mantha Zarmakoupi and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-08 with Architecture categories.
A groundbreaking ecocritical study that examines how ideas about the natural and built environment informed architectural and decorative trends of the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Landscape emerged as a significant theme in the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Writers described landscape in texts and treatises, its qualities were praised and sought out in everyday life, and contemporary perceptions of the natural and built environment, as well as ideas about nature and art, were intertwined with architectural and decorative trends. This illustrated volume examines how representations of real and depicted landscapes, and the merging of both in visual space, contributed to the creation of novel languages of art and architecture. Drawing on a diverse body of archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence, this study applies an ecocritical lens that moves beyond the limits of traditional iconography. Chapters consider, for example, how garden designs and paintings appropriated the cultures and ecosystems brought under Roman control and the ways miniature landscape paintings chronicled the transformation of the Italian shoreline with colonnaded villas, pointing to the changing relationship of humans with nature. Making a timely and original contribution to current discourses on ecology and art and architectural history, Shaping Roman Landscape reveals how Roman ideas of landscape, and the decorative strategies at imperial domus and villa complexes that gave these ideas shape, were richly embedded with meanings of nature, culture, and labor.
Daily Life In Ancient Rome
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Author : Jérôme Carcopino
language : en
Publisher: Yale Nota Bene
Release Date : 1968
Daily Life In Ancient Rome written by Jérôme Carcopino and has been published by Yale Nota Bene this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.
Provides insight into Roman life of the second century A.D.
Handbook Of Historical Methods For Management
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Author : Stephanie Decker
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-01
Handbook Of Historical Methods For Management written by Stephanie Decker and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-01 with Business & Economics categories.
The Handbook of Historical Methods for Management offers an invaluable compendium for researchers seeking to expand their methodological toolkit. It showcases a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of management, provides both practical guidance and conceptual insights and offers a wide-ranging picture of historical techniques for management.