Dining Posture in Ancient Rome : : Bodies, Values, and Status /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Roller, Matthew B.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 8 color plates. 15 halftones. 3 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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