Dining in a Classical Context

Edited by William Slater

Subjects: Archaeology, Classical Studies, History
Hardcover : 9780472101948, 264 pages, 53 photographs, 18 illustrations, 6 x 9, July 1991
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.23429
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Contents 

Introduction (William J. Slater)-1
Oriental Symposia: Contrasts and Parallels (Walter Burkert)-7
The Betrothal Symposium in Early Greece (Noel Robertson)-25
Foreigners at the Greek Symposium? (Margaret Miller)-59
War and the Symposium (Oswyn Murray)-83
The Age for Reclining and Its Attendant Perils (Alan Booth)-105
Triclinium and Stibadium (Katherine M.D. Dunbabin)-121
The Symposium in Roman Elegy (John C. Yardley)-149
Symposia and Deipna in Plutarch's Lives and in Other Historical Writings (George Paul)-157
Slaves at Roman Convivia (John H. D'Arms)-171
Dinner Theater (Christopher P. Jones)-185
Convivium and Villa in Late Antiquity (Jeremy Rossiter)-199
Index-215
Plates-219

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An investigation of the role of the feast as a cultural focus for the classical world

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