Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Dining men : posture, leisure, and privilege -- Dining women : posture, sex, and status -- Dining children : posture, pedagogy, and coming-of-age.
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"This book investigates the meaning and importance of the three principal dining postures - reclining, sitting, and standing - in the period 200 B.C.-A.D. 200. It explores the social values and distinctions associated with each of the postures and with the diners who assumed them. Roller shows that dining posture was entangled with a variety of pressing social issues, such as gender roles and relations, sexual values, rites of passage, and distinctions among the slave, freed, and freeborn conditions."--Jacket.
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Dining Posture in Ancient Rome : Bodies, Values, and Status.