Studies in the History of Perfumery, Chemistry, Science and Philosophy

2021

Littman, Robert J., Jay Silverstein, Dora Goldsmith, Sean Coughlin, and Hamedy Mashaly. 2021. “Eau de Cleopatra: Mendesian Perfume and Tell Timai.” Near Eastern Archaeology 84 (3): 216–29. https://doi.org/10.1086/715345

2022

Coughlin, Sean. 2022. “The Egg and the Inquisition.” Logbuch Wissensgeschichte. April 17, 2022. https://www.logbuch-wissensgeschichte.de/2633/egg-and-inquisition/.

2023

Golubev, Victor, and Sean Coughlin. 2023. “Gut Scent – The Smell of Guts – Comparative Guts.” Accessed November 16, 2023. https://comparative-guts.net/gut-scent-the-smell-of-guts/

2024

Coughlin, Sean. 2024. “Art and Nature in Aristotle’s Physics: Some Antecedents in Early Greek Medicine.” In Aristotle Reads Hippocrates, edited by Hynek Bartoš and Vojtěch Linka, 126–68. Studies in Ancient Medicine. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004703544

Coughlin, Sean. 2024. “Galen’s Hippocratism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Galen, edited by P. N. Singer and Ralph M. Rosen, 100–144. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190913687.013.17

Golubev, Victor, and Sean Coughlin. 2024. “Gut Scent: The Smell of Guts.” In Comparative Guts: Exploring the Inside of the Body through Time and Space, edited by Chiara Thumiger, 151–57. Kiel: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Exzellenzcluster ROOTS. https://doi.org/10.38071/2024-00345-3

Coughlin, Sean. 2024. “The Perfumer’s Garden: Scent and Well-Being in Some Greek and Roman Sources.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 44 (2–3): 118–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2024.2371254

Ravat, Klara, Laura Juliana Prieto Pabón, and Sean Coughlin. 2024. “Making the Scent of the Perfumer’s Garden: Imperial and Common Plague Remedies Used during the Antonine Plague (Approx. 165–190 CE).” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 44 (2–3): 141–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2024.2371263

2025

Wilde, Heike, Diana Míčková, Martin Pehal, and Sean Coughlin. Forthcoming. “The Antu-List Reconsidered: A Synoptic Reading of Edfu and Athribis Scented Material.” Zeitschrift Für Ägyptische Sprache Und Altertumskunde

Coughlin, Sean. Forthcoming. “Recipes for Horror in Graeco-Roman Magic and Medicine.” In Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond, edited by George Kazantzidis and Chiara Thumiger, 215-245. London: Bloomsbury Academic

Coughlin, Sean. Forthcoming. “François Coty and the Fragrance of Places We Have Not Known.” In The Reception of Antiquity in Modern Cosmetic Advertising and Marketing: I’m Your Venus, edited by Jane Draycott and Laurence Totelin. London: Bloomsbury Academic