SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism

Antón Alvar Nuño is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Málaga. His research is focused on Roman religion, with a special interest in Roman magic, on which he has published two monographs, Envidia y fascinación. El mal de ojo en el Occidente romano, Madrid, 2012, and Cadenas invisibles: Los usos de la magia entre los esclavos en el Imperio romano, Besançon, 2017.Jaime Alvar Ezquerra is Professor of Ancient History at Carlos III University of Madrid. His research areas include the protohistory of the Iberian Peninsula (specially Tartessos), and Roman religion with a special interest in the cults of Mithras, the gens isiaca and Mater Magna, on which he has published Romanising Oriental Gods (Brill, 2008) and El culto a Mitra en Hispania (Madrid-Besançon, 2018).Greg Woolf is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in London, and is also Honorary Professor of Archaeology at University College London. During 2018 he held a Chair of Excellence at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. His latest book is The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History, New York, 2020.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on EditorsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAntón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Greg Woolf1 Faces of Death: Lucretius, Religio, and Vision at RomeMartin Devecka2 Lucretius and the Body-Environment ApproachVisa Helenius3 Hirpi Sorani and Modern Fire-Walkers: Rejoicing through Pain in Extreme RitualsYulia Ustinova4 Empowered TonguesAttilio Mastrocinque5 Favete linguis and the Experience of the Divine: A Cognitively Grounded Approach to Sensory Perception in Roman ReligionMaik Patzelt6 The Triumph of the Senses: Sensory Awareness and the Divine in Roman Public CelebrationsMark Bradley7 Sensorium, Sensescapes, Synaesthesia, Multisensoriality: A New Way of Approaching Religious Experience in Antiquity?Adeline Grand-Clément8 Day and Night in the Agones of the Roman Isthmian GamesRocío Gordillo Hervás9 Multisensory Experiences in Mithraic InitiationRebeca Rubio10 Imperial Mysteries and Religious ExperienceElena Muñiz Grijalvo11 Pro consensu et concordia civium: Sensoriality, Imperial Cult, and Social Control in Augustan Urban OrientationsDavid Espinosa-Espinosa, A. César González-García, and Marco V. García-Quintela12 Finding Religion in Reported Sensorial Experiences: A Case Study of Propertius 4.6Jörg Rüpke13 Sensory Experiences in the Cybelic Cult: Sound Stimulation through Musical InstrumentsRosa Sierra del Molino and Israel Campos Méndez14 Isis’ Footprints: The Petrosomatoglyphs as Spatial Indicators of Human-Divine EncountersValentino Gasparini15 Assiduo sono and furiosa tibia in Ovid’s Fasti: Music and Religious Identity in Narratives of Processions in the Roman WorldNicole Belayche16 Total Sensory Experience in Isiac Cults: Mimesis, Alterity, and IdentityAntón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Clelia Martínez MazaIndex of Literary Sources (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia)Index of Epigraphic and Papyrological Sources (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia)General Index (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia)