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Food and society in classical antiquity / Peter Garnsey

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 175 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-0-511-61253-4 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-64182-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-64588-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 645596015     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9780511612534

GT2853.G8

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LOC-SH: Food supply -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 ; Food supply -- Rome ; Civilization, Classical ; Food habits -- Rome ; Food habits -- Greece -- History -- To 1500

Food habits ; Greece ; History ; To 1500 ; Food habits ; Rome ; Food supply ; Greece ; History ; To 1500 ; Food supply ; Rome ; Civilization, Classical

This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease, are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism. Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires, especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can be either integrative or divisive. The book explores food taboos in Greek, Roman, and Jewish society, and food-allocation within the family, as well as more familiar cultural and economic polarities which are highlighted by food and eating. The author draws on a wide range of evidence new and old, from written sources to human skeletal remains, and uses both comparative historical evidence from early modern and contemporary developing societies and the anthropological literature, to create a case-study of food in antiquity