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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Greek culture in the Roman world
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Greek culture in the Roman world.
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| Contents |
Conversation and community -- Locating the symposium -- Voice and community in sympotic literature -- Plutarch -- Athenaeus -- Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium -- Methodius -- Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in late antiquity -- Macrobius -- Consumption and transgression -- Philosophers and parasites -- Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels -- Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts -- Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk genre, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among other writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macrobius. It deals with the representation of transgressive, degraded, eccentric types of eating and drinking in Greco-Roman and early Christian prose narrative texts, focusing especially on the Letters of Alciphron, the Greek and Roman novels, especially Apuleius, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the early saints' lives. It argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter: these works communicated distinctive ideas about how to talk and how to think, distinctive models of the relationship between past and present, distinctive and often destabilising visions of human identity and holiness. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Symposium (Classical literature)
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Symposium (Classical literature) |
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Food in literature.
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Food in literature. |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Latin literature -- History and criticism.
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Latin literature. |
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Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism.
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Christian literature, Early. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: König, Jason. Saints and symposiasts. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521886857 (DLC) 2012012764 (OCoLC)782128095 |
| ISBN |
9781139549196 (electronic book) |
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1139549197 (electronic book) |
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9781139047180 (electronic book) |
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1139047183 (electronic book) |
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9780521886857 |
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0521886856 |
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1283610426 |
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9781283610421 |
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9781139554152 |
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1139554158 |
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