The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman LiteratureClarendon Press, 1993 - 334 էջ 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 contained it, are among the questions discussed here. The book also addresses many of the 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. |
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... ancient biography , where there seems to be a running dispute about the value of eating habits as worthwhile testimony . One biographer of Saturni- nus , for example , passes over the physique and diet of his subject on the grounds that ...
... ancient biography , where there seems to be a running dispute about the value of eating habits as worthwhile testimony . One biographer of Saturni- nus , for example , passes over the physique and diet of his subject on the grounds that ...
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... ancient literary theory to suggest that this kind of interpretation is not subjective or fanciful : there was as much disputing about tastes in Roman literature as there was in gastronomy . There are reasons , however , for thinking ...
... ancient literary theory to suggest that this kind of interpretation is not subjective or fanciful : there was as much disputing about tastes in Roman literature as there was in gastronomy . There are reasons , however , for thinking ...
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... ancient satire : primeval frisson and comic relief . Full - blooded satire was , in Horace's words , the kind that stripped the skin off society , revealing the rot beneath the shining exterior.2 Here , Petronius only scrapes the ...
... ancient satire : primeval frisson and comic relief . Full - blooded satire was , in Horace's words , the kind that stripped the skin off society , revealing the rot beneath the shining exterior.2 Here , Petronius only scrapes the ...
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Invitation Poems | 220 |
Horace Epode 3 | 280 |
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