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• 01 mar 2014

  Athens

  Call for papers - History

  From cacophony to music: sound perception in ancient societies

  The challenge facing the second international round table organised within this programme is to deconstruct the idea of a temporal and geographic universality of aural perception that is the same for all cultures. On the contrary, every society can be defined and distinguished from others through a particular relationship with sound. Thus, aural perception is above all a cultural construct. This premise has, however, never been applied to the ancient world. Therefore, a comparative study involving the four great civilisations of the ancient Mediterranean over a period running from the 3rd millennium BC until the 4th century AD could lead to the establishing of a geography and chronology of the way sound was thought about through an analysis of the manner in which it was named, described and experienced by the Ancients.

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