The article aims to investigate the difference between μυρεψός and μυροπώλης: the former worked to develop the recipe for perfumes, the latter to sell them. Although in the ancient world it is not possible to clearly distinguish the precise role of these two figures, and often the manufacturer was also the seller, nevertheless in the field of perfumery a μυρεψός could also be a μυροπώλης (such as the famous perfumer Megallos), but a μυροπώλης could not be a μυρεψός, because he did not have the knowledge necessary to compose a fragrance.
Profumiere e venditore di profumi. Considerazioni su ΜΥΡΕΨΟΣ E ΜΥΡΟΠΩΛΗΣ tra VI e III secolo a.C.
G. Squillace
2022-01-01
Abstract
The article aims to investigate the difference between μυρεψός and μυροπώλης: the former worked to develop the recipe for perfumes, the latter to sell them. Although in the ancient world it is not possible to clearly distinguish the precise role of these two figures, and often the manufacturer was also the seller, nevertheless in the field of perfumery a μυρεψός could also be a μυροπώλης (such as the famous perfumer Megallos), but a μυροπώλης could not be a μυρεψός, because he did not have the knowledge necessary to compose a fragrance.File in questo prodotto:
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