| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 219 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Dining men : posture, leisure, and privilege -- Dining women : posture, sex, and status -- Dining children : posture, pedagogy, and coming-of-age |
| Summary |
"This book investigates the meaning and importance of the three principal dining postures - reclining, sitting, and standing - in the period 200 B.C.-A.D. 200. It explores the social values and distinctions associated with each of the postures and with the diners who assumed them. Roller shows that dining posture was entangled with a variety of pressing social issues, such as gender roles and relations, sexual values, rites of passage, and distinctions among the slave, freed, and freeborn conditions."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 2, 2017) |
| Subject |
Dinners and dining -- Rome -- History.
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Posture -- Rome -- History.
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Social classes -- Rome -- History.
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Rome -- Civilization.
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Rome -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1400888247 (electronic bk.) |
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9781400888245 (electronic bk.) |
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