Sight and the Ancient Senses
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 107373833
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781844658664
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This 2016 volume is the culmination of a five-year project on ’Sight and the Ancient Senses’, and grows from Squire’s research into the cultural history of the senses, the body in antiquity and historical aesthetics. The book was conceived in connection with a broader series on 'The Senses in Antiquity’ to which Squire also contributed – commissioned by Acumen, taken over by Routledge, and project-managed by Shane Butler and Mark Bradley. Squire was responsible for conceptualising the structure of the book (working in partnership with the editors of the other five books); he ensured breadth of coverage, while also connecting the general structure of the book with those of the other five in the series, and steering the book through four separate stages of peer review (outline commission, chapter abstracts, first full manuscript and second full manuscript). Squire commissioned fourteen chapters in total (from scholars based in the UK, US, France and Germany), and took charge of the intellectual integrity of the whole: he worked closely with the thirteen other contributors – guiding content, suggesting revisions, acquiring photo permissions, adding internal cross-references and ensuring consistency. In addition to the introduction, which sets up the larger intellectual contribution of the whole within the burgeoning field of sensory history (‘Introductory Reflections: Making Sense of Ancient Sight’, 1-35), Squire co-authored two chapters – on ’Sight and the perspectives of mathematics: the limits of ancient optics’ (with Reviel Netz 68–84), and ’Sight and memory: the visual art of Roman mnemonics’ (with Jaś Elsner, 180–204). He was also responsible for the consolidated bibliography (263–305) and index.
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- Non-English
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