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

该项目旨在调查古希腊文学中气味是如何以及对接受者有什么影响。它解决了研究中的一个空白，因为它是第一次在文学研究的基础上对这个问题进行跨作者和体裁的全面调查。从荷马到农诺斯的时期，该项目主要选择文学文本，其中气味的表征大量或特别广泛地出现。具体地说，以这种方式定义的研究语料库包括选自以下作者的段落：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、忒奥克里托斯、罗兹的阿波罗尼乌斯、卡里斯托斯的安提哥努斯、科洛芬的尼坎德、西西里的狄奥多罗斯、哈勒那苏斯的狄奥尼修斯、普鲁塔克、卢西恩、塔提乌斯、朗古斯、瑙克拉提斯的雅典娜和农努斯。为了分析这个文本语料库，该项目追求三个指导性问题，同时代表了该项目的三个基本工作步骤：文本如何唤起气味？文本是如何使用嗅觉的属性的？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?