 Food in the Ancient World
ISBN: 978-0-631-23551-4
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320 pages
February 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking.
* Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD.
* Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.
* Concerns people from all walks of life - impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.
* Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes.
* Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.
* Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD.
* Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.
* Concerns people from all walks of life - impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.
* Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes.
* Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.
