Food and identity in the ancient world
By: edited by Cristiano Grottanelli and Lucio Milano.
Contributors: Grottanelli, C.; Milano, Lucio.; Università degli studi di Venezia. Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità e del Vicino Oriente.
Series: History of the ancient Near East. Studies -- v. 9.; HANE -- v. 9.
Publisher: S.A.R.G.O.N. editrice e libreria
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Padova
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9788890128684
Subjects: Food habits -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Diet -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Food habits -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Diet -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Food -- Religious aspects -- Congresses; Middle East -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses; Greece -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from Convegno Scelte alimentari e identità nel mondo antico, held in Venice March 27-28, 2000, organized by Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità e del Vicino Oriente dell'Università "Ca' Foscari."

ISBN from label on p. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers in English, French, and Italian; introd. in Italian.
Table of contents: title: Milk and national identity in China / Marco Ceresa; title: Viandes sacrificielles et organisation de l'espace dans le judaïsme du Second Temple / Francis Schmidt; title: Pork meat in food and worship among the Hittites / Stefano de Martino; title: Avoiding pork : Egyptians and Jews in Greek and Latin texts / Cristiano Grottanelli; title: Réflexions grecques sur les interdits alimentaires (entre l'Égypte et Jérusalem) / Philippe Borgeaud; title: Interdits et exclusions dans les banquets sacrificiels romains / John Scheid; title: Donne che non mangiano carne : in margine alla colonizzazione greca in Libia / Stefania De Vido; title: Fauna marina e tabù alimentari nel mondo greco / Claudia Antonetti; title: The king's table : food and fealty in Old Babylonian Mari / Jack M. Sasson; title: Diet and regimen in the Babylonian Talmud / Markham J. Geller; title: Food and identity in Mesopotamia : a new look at the aluzinnu's recipes / Lucio Milano; title: Meat, prebends and rank : on the distribution of sacrificial meat in Seleucid Uruk / Paola Corò Capitanio; title: The sacrificial cut and the sense of honour wronged in Greek epic poetry : Thebais, frgs. 2-3 D / Ettore Cingano; title: The leftovers of god and king : on the distribution of meat at the Assyrian and Achaemenid imperial courts / Simo Parpola.