Title Taste and the Ancient Senses

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages) Series The Senses in Antiquity Senses in antiquity. Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: On the tip of the tongue: making sense of ancient taste ; The experience of taste; Of tongues and palates; The imagery of taste; A tasting menu; 1 Tastes of Greek poetry: From Homer to Aristophanes ; Food and tasting in early Greek epic; The Homeric legacy of consumption; Experimenting with taste: the Homeric challenge; Laughing at taste: the comic afterlife of the Homeric challenge; Conclusion 2 Tastes of reality: Epistemology and the senses in ancient philosophy The ancient philosophy of taste; Xenophanes and the origin of epistemology; Atomism and the explanation of flavour; Plato, Aristotle and the hierarchy of the senses; The extension of taste; Conclusion; 3 Tastes in ancient botany, medicine and science: Bitter herbs and sweet honey ; The types of taste; Taste and the identification of medicinal and nutritive qualities; Culture and taste; Conclusion; 4 Tastes of Homer: Matro's gastroaesthetic tour through epic ; Nausicaa, doughy and creamy; Thetis, fishy and funky Ajax, tenderized and platedConclusion; 5 Tasting the Roman world; 6 Tastes from beyond: Persephone's pomegranate and otherworldly consumption in antiquity ; Tasting the pomegranate; Sensory intimacy, social intimacy; Hierophagy in a broader context; Conclusion; 7 Tastes of Roman Italy: Early Roman expansion and taste articulation ; "Roman" fauna: the case of fish and meat; "Roman" flora: from staples to seasonings; Instruments for food preparation; Conclusion; 8 Tastes and digestion: Archaeology and medicine in Roman Italy ; Health, nutrition and diet in the ancient world Archaeological and epigraphic evidence of foods from the Bay of NaplesFood flavours and health; Conclusion; 9 Tastes of meat in antiquity: Integrating the textual and zooarchaeological evidence ; Tastes, cultural preferences and meat consumption patterns in antiquity; Fat and the taste of meat; Preservation and pretreatment of meat for taste; Cooking techniques and the taste of meat; Conclusion; 10 Tastes in the Roman provinces: An archaeobotanical approach to socio-cultural change ; Defining taste; Charting new flavours; You are what you taste; Flavours of home, tastes of memory and power Taste of Cosmopolitanism and Learned DinersTaste of a globalised world; Conclusion; 11 Tastes of wine: Sensorial wine analysis in ancient Greece ; Galen and the organoleptics of wine; Wine according to sight; Wine according to taste; Wine according to consistency; Wine according to smell; Wine according to strength (dunamis); Conclusion; 12 Tastes of the extraordinary: Flavour lists in Imperial Rome ; Flavour and flavour elements; The language of medicine: Galen vs. Lycus; Wonder, paradox, and flavour: Pliny; The talking and tasting tongue: Julius Pollux; Conclusion Summary "Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity to provide answers to these central questions. By surveying and probing the literary and material remains from the Archaic period to late antiquity, contributors investigate the cultural and intellectual development towards attitudes and theories about taste. These specially commissioned chapters also open a window onto ancient thinking about perception and the body. Importantly, these authors go beyond exploring the functional significance of taste to uncover its value and meaning in the actions, thoughts and words of the Greeks and Romans. Taste and the Ancient Senses presents a full range of interpretative approaches to the gustatory sense, and provides an indispensable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity and sensory studies."--Provided by publisher Notes 13 Tastes of danger and pleasure in early and late antique Christianity Print version record Subject Taste -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History Taste -- Social aspects -- Greece -- History Senses and sensation -- Social aspects -- Greece -- History Senses and sensation -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History Taste in literature. Senses and sensation in literature. Metaphor in literature. Classical literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism Manners and customs Metaphor in literature Senses and sensation in literature Senses and sensation -- Social aspects Taste in literature SUBJECT Greece -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057131 Rome -- Social life and customs Subject Greece Rome (Empire) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317515418 1317515412

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