Touch and the ancient senses

Weitere Verfasser: Purves, Alex , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Abingdon Oxon : Routledge, 2018.
Ausgabe: First published 2018 by Routledge
Umfang/Format: 226 pages : llustrations ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: The senses in antiquity
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: what and where is touch? / Alex Purves
  • Hands know the truth: touch in Eurclea's recognition of Odysseus / Silvia Montigilio
  • Touching, proximity, and the aesthetics of pain in Sophocles / Nancy Worman
  • Aristotle and the priority of touch / Rebecca Steiner Goldner
  • The duality of touch / David Sedley
  • Getting to grips with classical art: rethinking the haptics of Graeco-Roman visual culture / Verity Platt and Michael Squire
  • In the body of the beholder: Herder's aesthetics and classical sculpture / Helen Slaney
  • Contaminating touch in the Roman world / Jack Lennon
  • The touch of poetry in th Carmina Priapea / Elizabeth Young
  • In touch, in love: Apuleius on the aesthetic impasse of a Platonic Psyche / Guila Sissa
  • Noli me tangere: the theology of touch / Catherine Conybeare
  • Losing touch: impaired sensation in Greek medical writings / Rebecca Flemming