Roman dining : a special issue of American Journal of Philology / edited by Barbara K. Gold & John F. Donahue.
Material type: TextPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005Description: xiii, 140 pages, 29 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801882028
- 9780801882029
- 394.120937 22
- DG101 .R655 2005
- GT2853.R6 R65 2005
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 394.120937 ROM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A266137B |
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394.1209 STR Feast : a history of grand eating / | 394.120901 FOO Food and identity in the ancient world / | 394.12093 WIL Food in the ancient world / | 394.120937 ROM Roman dining : a special issue of American Journal of Philology / | 394.1209388 MYC The Mycenaean feast / | 394.12094 ALB Food in early modern Europe / | 394.12094 FOO Food, drink and identity in Europe / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Barbara K. Gold -- Introduction / John F. Donahue -- The way we used to eat : diet, community, and history at Rome / Nicholas Purcell -- Land and sea : Italy and the Mediterranean in the Roman discourse of dining / John Wilkins -- Horizontal women : posture and sex in the Roman Convivium / Matthew Roller -- Toward a typology of Roman public feasting / John F. Donahue -- The waiting servant in later Roman art / Katherine M. D. Dunbabin.
"The articles collected here explore topics from diverse fields to analyze Roman culture and material practice, including the dietary practices and nutritional concerns of the Romans, dining and its links to ideology during the early imperial period, public banqueting and its social function in Roman society, and the emphasis placed on the waiting servant in both domestic and funerary settings."--BOOK JACKET.
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