Jason Konig

Saints and Symposiasts (eBook, PDF)

The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139557900
• Artikelnr.: 38457356

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.