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Title Meals in a social context : aspects of the communal meal in the Hellenistic and Roman world / edited by Inge Nielsen and Hanne Sigismund Nielsen
Published Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ; 1
Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity (ASMA) ; 1
Contents Introduction / Inge Nielsen and Hanne Sigismund Nielsen -- Salt, Fish, and the Sea in the Roman Empire / Peter Orsted -- The Roman Family at Dinner / Keith Bradley -- Roman Children at Mealtimes / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen -- Eating with the Dead: the Roman Funerary Banquet / Hugh Lindsay -- Ut Greaco More Biberetur: Greeks and Romans on the Dining Couch / Katherine Dunbabin -- Royal Banquets: the Development of Royal Banquets and Banqueting Halls from Alexander to the Tetrarchs / Inge Nielsen -- The Sixth Hour is the Mealtime for Scholars: Jewish Meals in the Roman world / David Noy -- The Common Meal in the Qumran-Essene Communities / Per Bilde -- Sacred Meal and Social Meeting: Paul's Argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34 / Geert Hallback -- Regulating Fellowship in the Communal Meal: Early Jewish and Christian Evidence / L. Michael White
Notes "The present book contains the revised versions of most of the papers given at this conference" -- intro. p. [9]
Papers presented at an international conference held in August 1995 at Fuglsang Manor in Denmark
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Civilization, Classical -- Congresses.
Civilization, Classical.
Dinners and dining -- Greece -- Citizen participation -- Congresses.
Dinners and dining -- Rome -- Citizen participation -- Congresses.
Dinners and dining -- Greece -- History -- Congresses.
Dinners and dining -- Rome -- History -- Congresses.
Food habits -- History -- Congresses.
Food habits -- Greece -- History -- Congresses.
Food habits -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses.
Food habits -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Food habits -- Rome -- History -- Congresses.
Food -- History -- Congresses.
Food -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Food -- Social aspects -- History -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Nielsen, Hanne Sigismund
Nielsen, Inge, 1950-
LC no. 99163706
ISBN 8772886978