Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (Greek Culture in the Roman World) by Dr Jason König
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0521886856 | ISBN-13: 9780521886857 | 430 pages | PDF | 5,2 MB
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.