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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Key Themes in Ancient History
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This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats
it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of
food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease,
are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism.
Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires,
especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can
be either integrative or divisive. The book explores food taboos in
Greek, Roman, and Jewish society, and food-allocation within the
family, as well as more familiar cultural and economic polarities
which are highlighted by food and eating. The author draws on a
wide range of evidence new and old, from written sources to human
skeletal remains, and uses both comparative historical evidence
from early modern and contemporary developing societies and the
anthropological literature, to create a case-study of food in
antiquity.
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