Refusing Meat Food: Vegetarianism and Civic Practices in Ancient Greece. ScriptaAntiqua164.
Ausonius| N° d'inventaire | 26149 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 260 p., numerous illustrations, paperback |
| Publication | Bordeaux, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782356135216 |
ScriptaAntiqua164-
Ancient historians consider that the bloody sacrifice followed by the consumption of meat at the banquet is a fundamental and unifying act of Greek civic life. In this context, what can be the place of those who refuse to eat meat? Are they necessarily on the margins of the city, as historiography claims? Without denying the valuable contributions of this approach, this book nuances it by studying ancient literary sources ranging from the 6th century BC to the 5th century AD. From the belief in metempsychosis to the debate on piety, including asceticism and the question of the definition of the animal, vegetarianism is structured around varied arguments that sometimes find resonance in contemporary practice. However, this book does not aim to write a history of vegetarianism, but rather to identify the place of citizens who refuse meat, while at the same time returning to the context of meat and fish consumption. In a multidisciplinary approach, this historical study is based on the one hand on archaeology which attests to a consumption of meat products outside the sacrificial context, and on the other hand on the sociology of food which defines the eater as a plural individual who updates his behavior according to social contexts. Thus, is abstaining from meat really excluding oneself from civic life?
ScriptaAntiqua164-
Ancient historians consider that the bloody sacrifice followed by the consumption of meat at the banquet is a fundamental and unifying act of Greek civic life. In this context, what can be the place of those who refuse to eat meat? Are they necessarily on the margins of the city, as historiography claims? Without denying the valuable contributions of this approach, this book nuances it by studying ancient literary sources ranging from the 6th century BC to the 5th century AD. From the belief in metempsychosis to the debate on piety, including asceticism and the question of the definition of the animal, vegetarianism is structured around varied arguments that sometimes find resonance in contemporary practice. However, this book does not aim to write a history of vegetarianism, but rather to identify the place of citizens who refuse meat, while at the same time returning to the context of meat and fish consumption. In a multidisciplinary approach, this historical study is based on the one hand on archaeology which attests to a consumption of meat products outside the sacrificial context, and on the other hand on the sociology of food which defines the eater as a plural individual who updates his behavior according to social contexts. Thus, is abstaining from meat really excluding oneself from civic life?