Movement, Sensory Spaces, and Religious Experience in Roman Antiquity

Rebecca Littlechilds completed her doctoral studies at King’s College London, UK Jeffrey Veitch is a PhD candidate at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

1. Introduction - Littlechilds and Veitch / 2. Multisensory Mapping of Rome’s Religious Landscape -Betts / 3. The Aural Environment of the Festivals of Apollo at Delos – Olivieri / 4. Can You Hear Me Now? Noise and Exclusion in the Mithraea of Ostia – Veitch / 5. The neglected crossings: the role of bridges in the movement and memory of ancient Rome – Hoggarth / 6. Processing through the walls: the relationship between Roman city walls and religious movement – Pinder / 7. Marriages and Funerals: Exploring Public and Private through Religious Ritual and Sensory Experience in the Atrium and Beyond – Platts / 8. ''His ashes steam with Assyrian spice'': odour, olfaction, and the Roman funeral – Clancy / 9. Smell and Taste of Rome on the Eve of the Festival – Trostnikova / 10. Of matrons, movement and majesty: Matronae primores civitatis and the advent of the Magna Mater (204 BCE) – Webb / 11. Ad limina sanctorum: Damasus I and the facilitation of physical access to Rome’s holy dead - Littlechilds / Afterword – Veitch / Bibliography / Index