Saints and Symposiasts

Saints and Symposiasts

The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture

Koenig, Jason

Cambridge University Press

05/2020

429

Mole

Inglês

9781108820196

15 a 20 dias

620

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Part I. Conversation and Community: 1. Locating the symposium; 2. Voice and community in sympotic literature; 3. Plutarch; 4. Athenaeus; 5. Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium; 6. Methodius; 7. Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in Late Antiquity; 8. Macrobius; Part II. Consumption and Transgression: 9. Philosophers and parasites; 10. Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels; 11. Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts; 12. Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography; Conclusion.