Jason König

Saints and Symposiasts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9781108820196
• ISBN-10: 1108820190
• Artikelnr.: 59513333

Autorenporträt

Jason König is a Senior Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire (2009). He has also edited Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (with Tim Whitmarsh, Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Greek Athletics (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Conversation and Community: 1. Locating the symposium
2. Voice and community in sympotic literature
3. Plutarch
4. Athenaeus
5. Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium
6. Methodius
7. Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in Late Antiquity
8. Macrobius
Part II. Consumption and Transgression: 9. Philosophers and parasites
10. Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels
11. Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts
12. Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography
Conclusion.