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Saints and Symposiasts - The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (Paperback)
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Saints and Symposiasts - The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (Paperback)
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
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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 tradition, derived from
Plato's Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among other
writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macrobius. It also
deals with the representation of transgressive, degraded, eccentric
types of eating and drinking in Greco-Roman and early Christian
prose narrative texts, focusing especially on the Letters of
Alciphron, the Greek and Roman novels, especially Apuleius, the
Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the early saints' lives. It
argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to
matter: these works communicated distinctive ideas about how to
talk and how to think, distinctive models of the relationship
between past and present, distinctive and often destabilising
visions of identity and holiness.
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