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

1. Verfasser: König, Jason.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Umfang/Format: xi, 417 p.
Schriftenreihe: Greek culture in the Roman world
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.