The Loaded Table : Representations of Food in Roman Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Loaded Table : Representations of Food in Roman Literature write by Emily Gowers. This book was released on 1993-01-21. The Loaded Table : Representations of Food in Roman Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture, through food - or rather, food as it is represented in literature. Food is not generally thought of as the noblest of literary subjects, and this view is a legacy from the Romans, so it is curious that Roman writers chose so persistently to depict their society at the dinner-table. Why this was so, and what effect the inclusion of food had on the status of the literary texts that described it, are among the questions discussed here. The book also addresses problems that arise when a material subject is translated into words, and contains fresh interpretations of Latin texts that have been unjustly undervalued - comedy, satire, epigrams, letters, and iambics. While often regarded as something trivial and gross, food was in fact one of the most suggestive images for Roman civilization. -
The Roman Community at Table During the Principate, New and Expanded Edition
The Roman Community at Table During the Principate, New and Expanded Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roman Community at Table During the Principate, New and Expanded Edition write by John Donahue. This book was released on 2004-06-28. The Roman Community at Table During the Principate, New and Expanded Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. John F. Donahue’s comprehensive examination of areas such as festal terminology, the social roles of benefactors and beneficiaries, the kinds of foods offered at feasts, and the role of public venues in community banquets draws on over three hundred Latin honorary inscriptions to recreate the ancient Roman feast. Illustrations depicting these inscriptions, as well as the food supply trades and various festal venues, bring important evidence to the study of this vital and enduring social practice. A touchstone for scholars, the work remains fresh and relevant. This expanded edition of Donahue’s work includes significant new material on current trends in food studies, including the archaeology and bioarchaeology of ancient food and drink; an additional collection of inscriptions on public banquets from the Roman West; and an extensive bibliography of scholarship produced in the last ten years. It will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of the ancient world, but also to anthropologists and sociologists interested in food and social group dynamics.
The Representation of Food in Roman Literature
The Representation of Food in Roman Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Representation of Food in Roman Literature write by Emily Joanna Gowers. This book was released on 1989. The Representation of Food in Roman Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire
Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire write by C. W. Marshall. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood. This volume offers the first expansive treatment of the reception of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging studies examine the lasting impact of classical Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse satire, essays, and epistolary fiction.
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire write by Kirk Freudenburg. This book was released on 2005-05-12. The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.
