Saints and symposiasts
Subtitle: the literature of food and the symposium in Greco-Roman and early Christian culture
By: Jason König
Series: Greek culture in the Roman world; Greek culture in the Roman world
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521886857
Subjects: Early Christian literature; Greek literature; Latin literature; Food in literature; History and criticism; Symposium (Classical literature)
Table of contents: title: Conversation and community; title: Locating the symposium; title: Voice and community in sympotic literature; title: Plutarch; title: Athenaeus; title: Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium; title: Methodius; title: Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in late antiquity; title: Macrobius; title: Consumption and transgression; title: Philosophers and parasites; title: Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels; title: Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts; title: Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography.