Dining Posture in Ancient Rome : : Bodies, Values, and Status / / Matthew B. Roller.
What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining was an indicator of social position as well as an extended social occasion, dining posture offered a...
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Roller, Matthew B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Dining Posture in Ancient Rome : Bodies, Values, and Status / Matthew B. Roller. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2018 1 online resource (240 p.) : 8 color plates. 15 halftones. 3 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Dining Men: Posture, Leisure, and Privilege -- Chapter Two. Dining Women: Posture, Sex, and Status -- Chapter Three. Dining Children: Posture, Pedagogy, and Coming-of-Age -- Appendix: Convivial Wine Drinking and Comissationes -- Catalogue of Funerary Monuments and Wall Paintings -- Bibliography -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining was an indicator of social position as well as an extended social occasion, dining posture offered a telling window into the day-to-day lives of the city's inhabitants. This book investigates the meaning and importance of the three principal dining postures--reclining, sitting, and standing--in the period 200 B.C.-200 A.D. It explores the social values and distinctions associated with each of the postures and with the diners who assumed them. Roller shows that dining posture was entangled with a variety of pressing social issues, such as gender roles and relations, sexual values, rites of passage, and distinctions among the slave, freed, and freeborn conditions. Timely in light of the recent upsurge of interest in Roman dining, this book is equally concerned with the history of the body and of bodily practices in social contexts. Roller gathers evidence for these practices and their associated values not only from elite literary texts, but also from subelite visual representations--specifically, funerary monuments from the city of Rome and wall paintings of dining scenes from Pompeii. Engagingly written, Dining Posture in Ancient Rome will appeal not only to the classics scholar, but also to anyone interested in how life was lived in the Eternal City. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. bisacsh Horace Serm. 2.8. Imperial period. Plautus' Stichus. Roman banquets. Roman convivia. Roman convivium. Roman culture. Roman dining practice. Roman dining practices. Roman dining. Roman foodways. Roman life. Satire 5. Trimalchio's dinner. ancient Rome. dining posture. drinking. eating. free adults. freeborn children. funerary moments. gender roles. historical aspects. ideological aspects. literary texts. male scrutiny. military service. moral decline. otium. physical environments. posture. reclining dining. rites of passage. slaves. social dynamics. social hierarchies. social position. social practice. social strate. social value. sociocultural approach. tabularium. toga virilis. wall paintings. women's dining. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 9783110737769 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017 9783110540550 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2017 9783110547733 ZDB-23-DGD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606591 print 9780691124575 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888245?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400888245 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400888245/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Dining Men: Posture, Leisure, and Privilege -- Chapter Two. Dining Women: Posture, Sex, and Status -- Chapter Three. Dining Children: Posture, Pedagogy, and Coming-of-Age -- Appendix: Convivial Wine Drinking and Comissationes -- Catalogue of Funerary Monuments and Wall Paintings -- Bibliography -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX |
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