The great Roman statesman Cicero, for example, wrote about how the residents of Segesta in Sicily anointed a statue of the ...

Ancient Greco-Roman Sculptures Were Not Just Visual Spectacles but Could Also Be ‘Smelt', They Were Scented For centuries, the world has admired the stunning beauty of ancient Greek and Roman ...

Texts from Cicero, Callimachus, and other ancient writers describe how statues were anointed with fragrant oils and ointments ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

According to sources from Cicero, the statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the forest, and animals in Greek mythology, located in the Sicilian city of Segesta, was anointed with aromatic ...

An archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, Brøns soon found multiple references to how ...

Brøns was surprised to find lots of evidence in texts by Cicero, Callimachus, Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Pausanias, among other writers. Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of ...

"Perfume and perfumed oils are often mentioned as part of the 'decoration' that was applied to religious cult statues in antiquity," she said. Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a ...