Touch and the Ancient Senses

By: PURVES, AlexMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The Senses in AntiquityPublication details: Oxon/New York Routledge 2018 Edition: 1stISBN: 9780000000000Subject(s): Classical literature--History and criticism | Greek literature | Greek literature--Themes, motives
Contents:
Introduction: What and Where is Touch?Alex Purves1. Hands Know the Truth: Touch in Euryclea's Recognition of OdysseusSilvia Montiglio2. Touching, Proximity, and the Aesthetics of Pain in SophoclesNancy Worman3. Aristotle and the Priority of TouchRebecca Steiner Goldner4. The Duality of TouchDavid Sedley5. Getting to Grips with Classical Art: Rethinking the Haptics of Graeco-Roman Visual CultureVerity Platt and Michael Squire6. In the Body of the Beholder: Herder's Aesthetics and Classical SculptureHelen Slaney7. The Contaminating Touch in the Roman WorldJack Lennon8. The Touch of Poetry in the Carmina PriapeaElizabeth Young9. In Touch, In Love: Apuleius on the Aesthetic Impasse of a Platonic PsycheGiulia Sissa10. Noli me tangere: the Theology of TouchCatherine Conybeare11. Losing Touch: Impaired Sensation in Greek Medical WritingsRebecca Flemming
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Introduction: What and Where is Touch?Alex Purves1. Hands Know the Truth: Touch in Euryclea's Recognition of OdysseusSilvia Montiglio2. Touching, Proximity, and the Aesthetics of Pain in SophoclesNancy Worman3. Aristotle and the Priority of TouchRebecca Steiner Goldner4. The Duality of TouchDavid Sedley5. Getting to Grips with Classical Art: Rethinking the Haptics of Graeco-Roman Visual CultureVerity Platt and Michael Squire6. In the Body of the Beholder: Herder's Aesthetics and Classical SculptureHelen Slaney7. The Contaminating Touch in the Roman WorldJack Lennon8. The Touch of Poetry in the Carmina PriapeaElizabeth Young9. In Touch, In Love: Apuleius on the Aesthetic Impasse of a Platonic PsycheGiulia Sissa10. Noli me tangere: the Theology of TouchCatherine Conybeare11. Losing Touch: Impaired Sensation in Greek Medical WritingsRebecca Flemming