The Scent of the Text: The Representation of Smells in Ancient Greek Literature

该项目旨在调查古希腊文献中如何描述气味，以及气味对接受者的影响。它解决了研究中的一个空白，因为它是第一次在始终如一的文学研究的基础上，跨作者和流派对这一主题进行全面调查。从荷马时期到农诺斯时期，该项目选择了大量或特别广泛地出现气味表征的文学文本。具体地说，以这种方式定义的研究语料库包括以下作者的精选段落：荷马、伊索、埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、欧里庇得斯、阿里斯托芬、希罗多德、色诺芬、西奥克里特、罗得斯的阿波罗尼乌斯、凯里斯特的安提戈斯、科罗芬德的尼坎德、西西里的狄奥多罗斯、哈利卡纳苏斯的狄奥尼修斯、普鲁塔克、卢西安、阿奇列乌斯·塔提乌斯、朗乌斯、瑙克拉提斯的雅典娜厄斯和诺努斯。为了分析这一文本语料库，该项目追寻了三个指导性问题，同时也代表了该项目的三个基本工作步骤：文本如何唤起气味？课文使用的嗅觉特性是怎样的？气味的表征如何产生更大的情节或叙事？

The project aims to investigate how and with what effect on recipients odours are portrayed in ancient Greek literature. It addresses a gap in research in that it is the first comprehensive investigation of this subject across authors and genres on a consistently literary-studies basis. From the period ranging from Homer to Nonnos, the project selects predominantly literary texts in which representations of smell occur in large numbers or particularly extensively. Specifically, the study corpus defined in this way includes selected passages from the following authors: Homer, Aesop, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Xenophon, Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Antigonus of Carystus, Nicander of Colophon, Diodorus of Sicily, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Lucian, Achilleus Tatius, Longus, Athenaeus of Naucratis and Nonnus. In order to analyse this text corpus, the project pursues three guiding questions, which at the same time represent the three essential working steps of the project: How do the texts evoke smells? How are the properties of the sense of smell used by the texts? How do representations of smell generate larger plots or narratives?