Spend/devour in the Greco-Roman world.
Ausonius| N° d'inventaire | 23297 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 270 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782356133656 |
In Greece, as in Rome, it is through food that opulence takes shape and is put on display; symmetrically, the annihilation of wealth is instinctively conceived as ingestion. In the imagination of the Ancients, gluttony and prodigality, frugality and parsimony allow us to think about all behaviors marked by the sign of excess, as well as the proper exercise of power or speech. The studies brought together in this volume examine this contiguity of economic and dietary norms, and the way in which they intersect in the political, ethical, medical, and rhetorical discourses of the Hellenistic and imperial periods.
In Greece, as in Rome, it is through food that opulence takes shape and is put on display; symmetrically, the annihilation of wealth is instinctively conceived as ingestion. In the imagination of the Ancients, gluttony and prodigality, frugality and parsimony allow us to think about all behaviors marked by the sign of excess, as well as the proper exercise of power or speech. The studies brought together in this volume examine this contiguity of economic and dietary norms, and the way in which they intersect in the political, ethical, medical, and rhetorical discourses of the Hellenistic and imperial periods.