| Description |
1 online resource (196 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology of Important Dates; Introduction: The Glutton and the Fat Body in the Ancient World; 1. "All Fat Is the Lord's"; 2. Philosophizing Excess in Plato And Aristotle; 3. Inside and Out: Medicine, Health, and Physiognomy in the Ancient World; 4. Popular Gluttons and Fat Bodies: The Trickster Herakles, Petronius's Satyricon, and Athenaeus's: The Learned Banqueters; 5. Ingest the Word, Not the World: Early Christian Ideas of Excess and Self-Restraint; 6. Gluttony Becomes a Deadly Sin; Epilogue; Notes; Further Reading; Index |
| Summary |
This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization, Ancient.
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Excess (Philosophy)
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Food habits -- History
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Gluttony -- History
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History, Ancient.
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Human body -- History
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Obesity -- History
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Civilization, Ancient
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Excess (Philosophy)
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Food habits
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Gluttony
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History, Ancient
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Human body
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Obesity
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Romer, Brian
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| ISBN |
9780313385070 |
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0313385076 |
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