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Title:Meals in a Social Context : Aspects of the Communal Meal in the Hellenistic & Roman World, 2nd Edition
Series:(Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity)
Author:Hanne Sigismund Nielsen & Inge Nielsen (eds)
ISBN:8779340067 : 9788779340060
Illustrations:illus
Format:Paperback
Pages:248
Weight: .538 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - March 2001
List Price: 15.25 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:World history: World history: BCE to c500 CE: Customs & folklore


This collection of outstanding essays gives an in-depth look at the role of meals in creating a sense of family and community in the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. By looking at the dining habits of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians, Essenes and Therapeutes, an international cadre of scholars provides insight into how social mores and etiquette were passed on to children, how family life increased in importance for Christians, the conflict in styles when Greeks and Romans met, and how meals attained and sustained religious significance. Other topics include funerary banquets; the etiquette of a formal dinner; the position of women at meals; royal feasts; the development of the Eucharist as a separate ritual; the architecture of the Greek andron and the Roman triclinium, early synagogues and temples; the diets of each culture. A separate chapter discusses the provision of food for the hungry and the public ownership of the sea, salt and fish.

Introduction; Salt, Fish, and the Sea in the Roman Empire; The Roman Family at Dinner; Roman Children at Mealtimes; Eating with the Dead: the Roman Funerary Banquet; Ut Graeco More Biberetur: Greeks and Romans on the Dining Couch; Royal Banquets: the Development of Royal Banquets and Banqueting Halls from Alexander to the Tetrarchs; The Sixth Hour is the Mealtime for Scholars: Jewish Meals in the Roman world; The Common Meal in the Qumran-Essene Communities; Sacred Meal and Social Meeting: Paul's Argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34; Regulating Fellowship in the Communal Meal: Early Jewish and Christian Evidence; Index of Names.