Sound and the ancient senses

by Butler, Shane Nooter, Sarah

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Title Statements

Full title :Sound and the ancient senses / edited by Shane Butler and Sarah Nooter.

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:x, 290 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138120389, 1138120383, 9781138481664, 1138481661
oclc:on1023050065
LC Classification:BF353.5.N65
Dewey Decimal:152.1/509

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.

Subjects

History Sens et sensations -- Histoire Senses and sensation Senses and sensation -- History Son -- Aspect psychologique Sound -- Psychological aspects Sound -- Religious aspects