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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jason (University of St Andrews Koenig, Jason König
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108820196
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82019-6
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 150 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 620 g
• Illustrations: 9 b/w illus., Raster,schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, History of Religion, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Religion and beliefs, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts