Taste and the Ancient Senses by

Taste and the Ancient Senses

Senses in Antiquity

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Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own...

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