Title Dining in a classical context / edited by William J. Slater

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1991] ©1991

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Description 217 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Introduction / William J. Slater -- Oriental symposia : contrasts and parallels / Walter Burkert -- The betrothal symposium in early Greece / Noel Robertson -- Foreigners at the Greek symposium? / Maragret Miller -- War and the symposium / Oswyn Murray -- The age for reclining and its attendant perils / Alan Booth -- Triclinium and stibadium / Katherine M.D. Dunbabin -- The symposium in Roman elegy / John C. Yardley -- Symposia and deipna in Plutarch's Lives and in other historical writings / George Paul -- Slaves at Roman convivia / John H. D'Arms -- Dinner theater / Christopher P. Jones -- Convivium and villa in late antiquity / Jeremy Rossiter Analysis Civilization, Classical Classical literature History and criticism Dinners and dining in literature Dinners and dining History Greece Dinners and dining History Rome Gastronomy in literature Greece Social life and customs Rome Social life and customs Notes "Delivered at a symposium at McMaster University in September of 1989"--Pref Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Civilization, Classical. Classical literature -- History and criticism. Dinners and dining in literature. Dinners and dining -- Greece -- History. Dinners and dining -- Rome -- History. Gastronomy in literature. SUBJECT Greece -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057131 Rome -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010111081 Author Slater, William J. LC no. 90027526 ISBN 0472101943 (cloth : alk.)

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