Saints and Symposiasts - The Literature of Food Symposium in Greco Roman Early Christian

Informationen zum Autor Jason König is a Senior Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire (2009). He has also edited Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (with Tim Whitmarsh, Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Greek Athletics (2010). Klappentext Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman Empire. Zusammenfassung Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman Empire. Argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter! communicating distinctive ideas about how to talk and think! and distinctive and often destabilising visions of human identity and holiness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Conversation and Community: 1. Locating the symposium; 2. Voice and community in sympotic literature; 3. Plutarch; 4. Athenaeus; 5. Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium; 6. Methodius; 7. Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in Late Antiquity; 8. Macrobius; Part II. Consumption and Transgression: 9. Philosophers and parasites; 10. Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels; 11. Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts; 12. Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Jason K. Nig, Jason Nig Jason K. Nig, Jason Keonig, Jason Konig, Jason König, KONIG JASON
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2012
• EAN: 9780521886857
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88685-7
• No. of pages: 430
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Religion & beliefs, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Classical history / classical civilisation, Church history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Cultural studies: food and society