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

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