Roman Dining

by Gold, Barbara K.; Donahue, John F.

• ISBN13: 9780801882029
• ISBN10: 0801882028
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-13
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

This special issue of the American Journal of Philology illuminates the nature and function of food and dining in the Roman world, offering historical, sociological, literary, cultural, and material perspectives. The articles collected here explore topics from diverse fields to analyze Roman culture and material practice, including the dietary practices and nutritional concerns of the Romans, dining and its links to ideology during the early imperial period, public banqueting and its social function in Roman society, and the emphasis placed on the waiting servant in both domestic and funerary settings. The American Journal of Philology is renowned for its role in helping to shape American classical scholarship. Today the Journal has achieved worldwide recognition as a forum for international exchange among classicists by publishing original research in Greco-Roman literature, and culture.

Author Biography

Barbara K. Gold is a professor of classics at Hamilton College and editor of The American Journal of Philology. John F. Donahue is an assistant professor in the department of classical studies at the College of William and Mary.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The way we used to eat : diet, community, and history at Rome	p. 1
Land and sea : Italy and the Mediterranean in the Roman discourse of dining	p. 31
Horizontal women : posture and sex in the Roman Convivium	p. 49
Toward a typology of Roman public feasting	p. 95
The waiting servant in later Roman art	p. 115
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