Shane Butler is Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author, most recently, of The Ancient Phonograph (2015), and editor of Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception (2016). He is also co-editor, with Mark Bradley, of this series, as well as being co-editor, with Alex Purves, of its first volume, Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (2013).

Sarah Nooter is Associate Professor of Classics, and of Theater and Performance Studies, at the University of Chicago, USA. She is the author of When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (2012) and The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (2017).

Introduction: Sounding hearing

Part I. Ancient Soundscapes

1. The sound of the sacred

2. Hearing ancient sounds through modern ears

3. Sounding out public space in Late Republican Rome

4. Vocal expression in Roman mourning

Part II. Theories of Sound

5. Sound: an Aristotelian perspective

6. Greek acoustic theory: Simple and complex sounds

7. The soundscape of ancient Greek healing

8. Lucretius on sound

Part III. Philology and Sound

9. Gods and vowels

10. The song of the Sirens between sound and sense

11. Auditory philology

12. Sounds of the stage

13. The erogenous ear

14. Principles of sound reading