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Food in the Ancient World
Shaun Hill, John Wilkins
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Klassische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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.
Rezensionen
"[A] fascinating tour through Greek and Roman eating habits."
"This learned and often amusing work will help to establish the importance of this field of study [food history]. Covering the period of antiquity from 750 BC to AD 200, it is a fruitful joint effort between a classicist, Wilkins, and Hill, a distinguished chef... By contrasting the ancient world with our own, this book shows how little human nature has changed in three millennia."
"A delight in every sense -- learned, but written with a real delight in its subject matter, packed with beguiling information and drawing cunning parallels between the ancient and modern food worlds."
"A clear and comprehensive introduction that will be useful both for teachers and for anyone wishing for an overview of a complex, but absolutely central, aspect of Greek and Roman life. This book will certainly whet the reader's appetite to learn still more."
"A delicious feast of a book... Unlike many other books of its type, Food in the Ancient World has been written with the combined talents of a respected classicist and a world-class chef to cover a millenium of food consumption from c.750 BC to 200AD... a valuable addition to any writer's reference collection."
"Outstanding Title... The authors incorporate an impressive range of ancient sources, modern classical scholarship, and studies in the history of food... Highly recommended"
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Kundenbewertungen
Ancient & Classical Literature, Ancient & Classical History, Geschichte, Geschichte des Altertums u. der klassischen Antike, History, Antike u. klassische Literatur, Humanistische Studien, Classical Studies