TY - BOOK ID - 3386496 TI - Saints and symposiasts : the literature of food and the symposium in Greco-Roman and early Christian culture PY - 2012 VL - *18 SN - 9780521886857 0521886856 9781139047180 1108820190 1139887114 1139564021 1139550446 9786613922878 1139549197 1139555405 1139554158 1139047183 1139551698 1283610426 9781139549196 9781283610421 9781139554152 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Symposium (Classical literature) KW - Food in literature. KW - Greek literature KW - Latin literature KW - Christian literature, Early KW - Symposion(Littérature classique) KW - Aliments dans la littérature KW - Littérature grecque KW - Littérature latine KW - Littérature chrétienne primitive KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Symposium (Classical literature). KW - Symposion(Littérature classique) KW - Aliments dans la littérature KW - Littérature grecque KW - Littérature latine KW - Littérature chrétienne primitive KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3386496 AB - Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among other writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macrobius. It also deals with the representation of transgressive, degraded, eccentric types of eating and drinking in Greco-Roman and early Christian prose narrative texts, focusing especially on the Letters of Alciphron, the Greek and Roman novels, especially Apuleius, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the early saints' lives. It argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter: these works communicated distinctive ideas about how to talk and how to think, distinctive models of the relationship between past and present, distinctive and often destabilising visions of identity and holiness. ER -