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Communal dining in the Roman West : private munificence towards cities and associations in the first three centuries AD / by Shanshan Wen

Wen, Shanshan [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] [© 2022]

XII, 321 Seiten : Diagramme, Karten ; 24 cm

Englisch

Dissertation, University Leiden

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Wen, Shanshan : Communal dining in the Roman West. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Communal dining in the Roman West / Wen, Shanshan [GNDNR:1166459187] (Online-Ausgabe)

978-90-04-51686-1 (hardback)

978-90-04-51687-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2022017792

9789004516861

OCoLC: 1333954794     

NH 8550      Ähnliche Literatur

GT2853.R57

394.1/20945632

Basisklassifikation: 15.28 (Römisches Reich)

*Griechenland (Altertum) ; Freigebigkeit ; Geschichte 0-300 ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Dinners and dining -- Rome -- History ; Food habits -- Rome -- History ; Rome -- Social life and customs ; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D ; Rome -- Civilization

"Communal Dining in the Roman West explores why the practice of privately sponsored communal dining gained popularity in certain parts of the Western Roman Empire for almost 300 years. This book brings together 350 Latin inscriptions to examine the benefactors and beneficiaries, the geographical and chronological distributions, and the relationship between public and collegial dining practices. It argues that food-related euergetism was a region-specific phenomenon which was rooted in specific social and political cultures in the communities of Italy, Baetica and Africa Proconsularis. The region-specific differences in political cultures and long-term changes in these cultures are key to understanding not only the long persistence of this practice but also its ultimate disappearance"--