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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

217 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Civilization, Classical--Congresses.
Classical literature--Congresses.--Congresses.
Dinners and dining--Greece--Congresses.--Congresses.
Dinners and dining--Rome--Congresses.--Congresses.
Dinners and dining in literature--Congresses.
Symposium (Classical literature)--Congresses.
Greece--Congresses.--Congresses.
Rome--Congresses.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Slater, William J.

Notes:

"Delivered at a symposium at McMaster University in September of 1989"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Oriental symposia : contexts and parallels / Walter Burkert -- The betrothal symposium in early Greece / Noel Robertson -- Foreigners at the Greek symposium? / Margaret 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.

ISBN:

9780472101948 (cloth : alk.)
0472101943 (cloth : alk.)

LCCN:

90027526

Locations:

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

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)