The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature

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ISBN-10:

0198150822

ISBN-13:

9780198150824

Author(s): Gowers, Emily
Released: Feb 13, 1997
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Format: Paperback, 346 pages
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Description:

This book offers a novel approach to Roman culture, looking at food as it is represented in literature. Although not generally thought of as the noblest of literary subjects, this view is a legacy from the Romans, so 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 had on the status of the literary texts that contained it, are among the questions discussed here. The book also 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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