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The ideal library of food and words. Speaking, drinking, and eating in antiquity, from Homer to Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers.
SCHNEIDER Catherine.

The ideal library of food and words. Speaking, drinking, and eating in antiquity, from Homer to Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers.

The Beautiful Letters
€27,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25226
Format 13 x 19 cm
Détails 448 p., paperback.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782251452487
Frugal chips or delirious feasts, the meals of Antiquity have the flavor of joyful thought, the one that comes with eating. The important thing is to know how to do it together because this is the meaning of the word convivium in Latin. When the art of words combines with the art of food, pleasure and intelligence are savored without moderation: Plato, Seneca, Ovid, all the greatest Greek and Roman authors wrote marvelous words at their tables, private or public. Others less known, like Bishop Venance Fortunatus or Methodius of Olympus, found the inspiration to regale us with exquisite and unexpected pages on the guilty and delicious happiness of food.
This Ideal Library brings together the best of fifteen centuries of culinary discourse and practices, giving us a taste of the unprecedented evolution and refinement achieved during the pagan period, but also its condemnation in the Christian era. Above all, it invites us to question our manners and our conviviality, our savoir-vivre, which is often confused with knowing how to eat. Apprentice gastronome and confirmed gourmet, hungry for witty remarks or gourmand of great speeches, everyone is invited to taste the dishes and words of Antiquity: come as you are, you will be well received!
Frugal chips or delirious feasts, the meals of Antiquity have the flavor of joyful thought, the one that comes with eating. The important thing is to know how to do it together because this is the meaning of the word convivium in Latin. When the art of words combines with the art of food, pleasure and intelligence are savored without moderation: Plato, Seneca, Ovid, all the greatest Greek and Roman authors wrote marvelous words at their tables, private or public. Others less known, like Bishop Venance Fortunatus or Methodius of Olympus, found the inspiration to regale us with exquisite and unexpected pages on the guilty and delicious happiness of food.
This Ideal Library brings together the best of fifteen centuries of culinary discourse and practices, giving us a taste of the unprecedented evolution and refinement achieved during the pagan period, but also its condemnation in the Christian era. Above all, it invites us to question our manners and our conviviality, our savoir-vivre, which is often confused with knowing how to eat. Apprentice gastronome and confirmed gourmet, hungry for witty remarks or gourmand of great speeches, everyone is invited to taste the dishes and words of Antiquity: come as you are, you will be well received!