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This book looks at the way in which food was employed in Greek and Roman literature to impart identity, whether social, individual, religious or ethnic. In many instances these markers are laid down in the way that foods were restricted, in other words by looking at the negatives instead of the positives of what was consumed. Michael Beer looks at several aspects of food restriction in antiquity, for example, the way in which they eschewed excess and glorified the simple diet; the way in which Jewish dietary restriction identified that nation under the Empire; the way in which Pythagoreans den

Food habits --- Food --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Aliments --- History --- Social aspects --- History. --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Food preferences --- Food -- History -- To 1500. --- Food -- Social aspects -- History. --- Food habits -- History -- To 1500.