Saints and symposiasts : the literature of food and the symposium in Greco-Roman and early Christian culture /

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 te...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: König, Jason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2012]
Colección:Greek culture in the Roman world.
Temas:
Symposium (Classical literature)
Food in literature.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early > History and criticism.
Aliments dans la littérature.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique.
Littérature chrétienne primitive > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Christian literature, Early
Food in literature
Greek literature
Latin literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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