Odour, perfume, and the female body in ancient Rome

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Odour, perfume, and the female body in ancient Rome

This thesis examines the representation of the scented female body in the literary culture of late Republican and early Imperial Rome. Recent years have seen increasing scholarly interest in odour and olfaction in antiquity, building on anthropological and sociological research on the cultural relat...

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Main Author:	Lawrence, Thea
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	ancient Rome classics women gender sex senses smell odour perfume literature medicine myth
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59467/

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