the literature of food and the symposium in Greco-Roman and early Christian culture /
Jason König
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012
xi, 417 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Greek culture in the Roman world
Includes bibliographical references and index
Conversation and community -- Locating the symposium -- Voice and community in sympotic literature -- Plutarch -- Athenaeus -- Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium -- Methodius -- Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in late antiquity -- Macrobius -- Consumption and transgression -- Philosophers and parasites -- Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels -- Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts -- Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography
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Christian literature, Early-- History and criticism