Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook: Readings from the Graeco-Roman World (Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History)

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Amid growing interest in food and drinks as an academic discipline in up to date years, this volume is the first to provide insight into eating and drinking by that specialize in what the ancients themselves in fact had to say about this important topic.

A thorough and varied sourcebook, it is structured thematically and is a unique asset to any course on food and foodways. The chronological scope of the material extends from Greece of the 8th century BCE to the Late Roman Empire of the 4th century CE. Every chapter consists of an introduction together with a concluding bibliography of suggested readings. The excerpts themselves, rendered in clear and readable English that remains faithful to the original Latin or Greek, are set in their proper social and historical context, with the writer of Every passage fully identified.

An unparalleled compilation of essential source material for Classics courses and with a variety of evidence, drawing upon literary, inscriptional, legal and non secular testimony, Food and Drink in Antiquity can also be particularly well suited to the interdisciplinary focus of modern food studies.

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