The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature - Softcover

Gowers, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198150822 ISBN 13: 9780198150824

Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

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This book offers a novel approach to Roman culture, looking at food as it is represented in literature. Gowers addresses many of the problems that arise when a material subject is translated into words, and contains fresh interpretations of Latin texts that have been unjustly undervalued-comedy, satire, epigrams, letters, and iambics. While often regarded as something trivial, food was in fact one of the most suggestive images for Roman civilization.

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This book offers a novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture through food as it is represented in literature. Although food is not generally thought of as the noblest of literary subjects--and this view is a legacy from the Romans--it is curious that Roman writers chose so persistently to depict their society at the dinner-table. Why this was so, and what effect the inclusion of food has on the status of the literary texts that contained it, are among the questions discussed.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198150822
• ISBN 13: 9780198150824
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland