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Smell and Sociocultural Value Judgment in Catullus
- Classical World
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 109, Number 4, Summer 2016
- pp. 465-486
- 10.1353/clw.2016.0064
- Article
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Representations of smell can serve as vehicles for value judgments about social status and cultural performance. Since smell crosses boundaries, the same representations can also expose the arbitrariness of standards of behavior. This essay focuses on examples from Catullus: mainly poems 13 and 97, which include his only uses of