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Prehistoric peoples --- Diet --- Food habits --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Food --- History --- Prehistoric peoples - Food - Greece --- Diet - Greece - Crete --- Food habits - Greece - History --- Human remains (Archaeology) - Greece

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The large-scale, formal consumption of huge quantities of food and drink is a feature of many societies, but extracting evidence for feasting from the archaeological record has, until recently, been problematic. This collection of essays investigates the rich evidence for the character of the Mycenaean feast. While much of the evidence discussed comes from the Palace of Nestor near Pylos, the authors also discuss new material from Tsoungiza near Nemea, and from other Bronze Age sites on mainland Greece and Crete. Textual evidence (from Linear B tablets) for the collection of raw materials, and the stocktaking of equipment, is complemented by discussions of the faunal and artifactual assemblages feasts left behind. Specially commissioned papers put Mycenaean practice in context by comparing it to contemporary activities on Cyprus and in Minoan Crete, while a final chapter compares Bronze with Iron Age Greece, especially as seen through the lens of Homeric epic. This volume offers a rich and detailed collection of evidence, from a variety of sources, for conspicuous consumption in the Mycenaean period. As well as being core reading for Aegean prehistorians, it will be of interest to students of later Greek culture, anthropologists, and other scholars interested in the wider social aspects of eating and drinking.

Civilization, Mycenaean. --- Food habits --- History --- Greece --- Antiquities. --- Civilization, Mycenaean --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Mycenaean civilization --- Civilization, Aegean --- Food habits - Greece - History - To 1500. --- Greece - Antiquities.

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This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease, are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism. Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires, especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can be either integrative or divisive. The book explores food taboos in Greek, Roman, and Jewish society, and food-allocation within the family, as well as more familiar cultural and economic polarities which are highlighted by food and eating. The author draws on a wide range of evidence new and old, from written sources to human skeletal remains, and uses both comparative historical evidence from early modern and contemporary developing societies and the anthropological literature, to create a case-study of food in antiquity.

Civilization, Classical --- Food habits --- Food supply --- 394.12093 --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Classical civilization --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- History --- Social sciences Food Ancient World --- Arts and Humanities --- Civilization, Classical. --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Aliments --- Civilisation ancienne --- History. --- Histoire --- Approvisionnement --- Greece --- Rome --- Civilization [Classical ] --- Food habits - Greece - History - To 1500 --- Food habits - Rome --- Food supply - Greece - History - To 1500 --- Food supply - Rome

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Le banquet est une activité représentative des valeurs de l'élite gréco-romaine du IIe siècle apr. J.-C. Il symbolise l'otium (loisir) et la paideia (culture). Le banquet était déjà le cadre de la transmission des normes comportementales et des valeurs de l'élite à l'époque archaïque, en Grèce, par l'entremise des poèmes épiques et lyriques et par l'observation des pratiques des Anciens. A partir du IVe siècle av. J.-C., dans les écoles de philosophie, les manuels de bienséance concourent également à la formation des futures élites politiques et intellectuelles de la Grèce ancienne. A leur époque, Plutarque de Chéronée, Lucien de Samosate et Athénée de Naucratis, par [entremise du banquet littéraire, participent, à leur manière, à la diffusion des connaissances et des bonnes manières. Ils réfléchissent aux manières de table contemporaines en convoquant les autorités littéraires appartenant au passé. Souvent, ils mettent en avant une dégradation des moeurs, faisant preuve d'un préjugé, d'une observation inverse à celle de Norbert Elias pour l'Europe moderne. La thèse du sociologue Elias sur le processus évolutif des bonnes moeurs n'est pas opérante pour [étude des mondes anciens. Au IIe siècle apr. J.-C., à l'époque de l'Empire, les élites grecques et romaines partagent les mêmes loisirs et les mêmes référents culturels. Les banquets grec et romain s'unissent pour former une seule et même institution, un banquet gréco-romain participant à la définition identitaire des élites de l'Empire, comme peuvent l'attester l'apparition de triclinia dans le monde grec et l'introduction de l'épouse grecque au banquet.

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