Meals in a social context
Subtitle: aspects of the communal meal in the Hellenistic and Roman world
By: edited by Inge Nielsen and Hanne Sigismund Nielsen.
Contributors: Nielsen, Inge, 1950-; Nielsen, Hanne.
Series: Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ;; 1
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Aarhus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Dinners and dining -- Greece -- History -- Congresses.; Dinners and dining -- Rome -- History -- Congresses.; Food -- Social aspects -- History -- Congresses.; Civilization, Classical -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-222) and indexes.
Papers presented at a conference held Aug. 1995 at Fuglsang Manor in Denmark.
Table of contents: title: Salt, fish and the sea in the Roman Empire / Peter Ørsted; title: The Roman family at dinner / Keith Bradley; title: Roman children at mealtimes / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen; title: Eating with the dead: the Roman funerary banquet / Hugh Lindsay; title: Ut Graeco more biberetur: Greeks and Romans on the dining couch / Katherine Dunbabin; title: Royal banquets: the development of royal banquets and banqueting halls from Alexander to the Tetrarchs / Inge Nielsen; title: The sixth hour is the mealtime for scholars: Jewish meals in the Roman world / David Noy; title: The common meal in the Qumran-Essene communities / Per Bilde; title: Sacred meal and sacred meeting: Paul's argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34 / Geert Hallbäck; title: Regulating fellowship in the communal meal: early Jewish and Christian evidence / L. Michael White