SENSORIVM : : the senses in Roman polytheism / / edited by Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Greg Woolf.
"SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses. The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by 'the sensory turn'....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (474 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Greg Woolf
- Faces of death : Lucretius, religio, and vision at Rome / Martin Devecka
- Lucretius and the body-environment approach / Visa Helenius
- Hirpi Sorani and modern fire-walkers : rejoicing through pain in extreme rituals / Yulia Ustinova
- Empowered tongues / Attilio Mastrocinque
- Favete linguis and the experience of the divine : a cognitively grounded approach to sensory perception in Roman religion / Maik Patzelt
- The triumph of the senses : sensory awareness and the divine in Roman public celebrations / Mark Bradley
- Sensorium, sensescapes, synaesthesia, multisensoriality : a new way of approaching religious experience in antiquity? / Adeline Grand-Clément
- Day and night in the agones of the Roman Isthmian games / Rocío Gordillo Hervás
- Multisensory experiences in Mithraic initiation / Rebeca Rubio
- Imperial mysteries and religious experience / Elena Muñiz Grijalvo
- Pro consensu et concordia civium : sensoriality, imperial cult, and social control in Augustan urban orientations / David Espinosa-Espinosa, A. César González-García, and Marco V. García-Quintela
- Finding religion in reported sensorial experiences : a case study of Propertius 4.6 / Jörg Rüpke
- Sensory experiences in the Cybelic cult : sound stimulation through musical instruments / Rosa Sierra del Molino and Israel Campos Méndez
- Isis' footprints : the petrosomatoglyphs as spatial indicators of human-divine encounters / Valentino Gasparini
- Assiduo sono and furiosa tibia in Ovid's Fasti : music and religious identity in narratives of processions in the Roman world / Nicole Belayche
- Total sensory experience in Isiac cults : mimesis, alterity, and identity / Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Clelia Martínez Maza.