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Food in the Ancient World
Contributor(s): Wilkins, John (Author), Hill, Shaun (Author)
ISBN: 0631235507     ISBN-13: 9780631235507
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $123.70  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2006
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Annotation: In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking.
* Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD.
* Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.
* Concerns people from all walks of life - impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.
* Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes.
* Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient - General
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
Dewey: 394.120
LCCN: 2005013069
Series: Ancient Cultures
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.34" W x 9.26" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking.



  • Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD.

  • Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.

  • Concerns people from all walks of life - impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.

  • Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes.

  • Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.