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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.

Publisher:

Aarhus University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Dinners and dining--Greece--History.--Congresses.
Dinners and dining--Rome--History--Congresses.
Food--History--History--Congresses.
Civilization, Classical.--Congresses.
Food--History.--Congresses.
Food--Social aspects.--Congresses.
Food habits--History.--Congresses.
Food habits--Social aspects.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Nielsen, Inge, 1950-
Nielsen, Hanne.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held Aug. 1995 at Fuglsang Manor in Denmark. Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-222) and indexes.

Contents:

Salt, fish and the sea in the Roman Empire / Peter Ørsted -- 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 Graeco 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 sacred meeting: Paul's argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34 / Geert Hallbäck --Regulating fellowship in the communal meal: early Jewish and Christian evidence / L. Michael White

Series:

Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ; 1

ISBN:

9788772886978
8772886978

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40365521

LCCN:

99163706

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)