SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)

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SENSORIVM publishes the first results of a collective investigation into how Roman rituals smelled, sounded, felt and struck the eye. It brings Roman religious experience into the realm of the senses. Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors Introduction Chapter 1 Faces of Death: Lucretius, Religio, and Vision at Rome Chapter 2 Lucretius and the Body-Environment Approach Chapter 3 Hirpi Sorani and Modern Fire-Walkers: Rejoicing through Pain in Extreme Rituals Chapter 4 Empowered Tongues Chapter 5 Favete linguis and the Experience of the Divine: A Cognitively Grounded Approach to Sensory Perception in Roman Religion Chapter 6 The Triumph of the Senses: Sensory Awareness and the Divine in Roman Public Celebrations Chapter 7 Sensorium, Sensescapes, Synaesthesia, Multisensoriality: A New Way of Approaching Religious Experience in Antiquity? Chapter 8 Day and Night in the Agones of the Roman Isthmian Games Chapter 9 Multisensory Experiences in Mithraic Initiation Chapter 10 Imperial Mysteries and Religious Experience Chapter 11 Pro consensu et concordia civium: Sensoriality, Imperial Cult, and Social Control in Augustan Urban Orientations Chapter 12 Finding Religion in Reported Sensorial Experiences: A Case Study of Propertius 4.6 Chapter 13 Sensory Experiences in the Cybelic Cult: Sound Stimulation through Musical Instruments Chapter 14 Isis’ Footprints: The Petrosomatoglyphs as Spatial Indicators of Human-Divine Encounters Chapter 15 Assiduo sono and furiosa tibia in Ovid’s Fasti: Music and Religious Identity in Narratives of Processions in the Roman World Chapter 16 Total Sensory Experience in Isiac Cults: Mimesis, Alterity, and Identity Index of Literary Sources Index of Epigraphic and Papyrological Sources General Index