The Margins of Good Taste: Perfume and its Producers in Ancient Greece (online)

Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-margins-of-good-taste-perfume-and-its-producers-in-ancient-greece-tickets-1992158985152?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true – Sean Coughlin presents research into attitudes and positions towards perfumery in the Ancient Greek world. Ancient perfumery in the Greek world wasn’t a Greek practice, or at least according to many in power it was not supposed to be.

It was something done by women, enslaved workers, foreigners, and migrants — people the literary record either erases or moralizes about. This talk reads the sources for the practitioners rather than the moralists, and asks what we learn about a craft economy whose expertise sat with people the elite considered suspect.

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with attendees. Olfactory Research Notes is a lecture series presented by the Institute for Art and Olfaction that highlights important research done in the field of olfaction, directly from the scientists, researchers, academics, and artists who do it. – Image credits: George E.

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