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Empire of Pleasures [Paperback]

Andrew Dalby (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0415280737 | ISBN-13: 978-0415280730 | Publication Date: September 15, 2002 | Edition: New edition

Empire of Pleasures presents an evocative survey of the sensory culture of the Roman Empire, showing how the Romans themselves depicted their food, wine and entertainments in literature and in art.
This fascinating journey envelops the reader in a world devoted to the titillation and fulfilment of the senses, allowing them to recapture the Empire as it was sensed and imagined by those who lived in it. It will fascinate and entrance anyone with a love of the classical world

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This fascinating journey envelops the reader in a world devoted to the titillation and fulfilment of the senses, allowing them to recapture the Empire as it was sensed and imagined by those who lived in it. It will fascinate and entrance anyone with a love of the classical world

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'cholarly and entertaining book about food, sex, and the fizz of social life' - Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times

'This book is the ideal companion for the armchair tourist.' - Classical Review

About the Author

Andrew Dalby is a historian and linguist. He is also the author of Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece(Routledge 1996), which won the Runciman Prize in 1996 and (with Sally Grainger) The Classical Cookbook (1996). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Routledge; New edition edition (September 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415280737
ISBN-13: 978-0415280730
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
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What a great book...opened my eyes to a new world food history!

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The link made at the end of the previous chapter between Assyrian and Roman triumphal art belongs with a more general observation. Read the first page

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chub mackerel, wild silk, gift poem, onyx marble, sine fine, raisin wine

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Roman Empire, Appian Way, Anthologia Palatina, Black Sea, Campus Martius, Red Sea, Cisalpine Gaul, Indian Ocean, Menippean Satires, Soprintendenza Archeologica, Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Persian Gulf, Petronius's Satyricon, Sacred Way, Vicus Tuscus, Forum Appi, Roman Asia, Acts of Thomas, Sibylline Oracles, Against Eutropius, Asia Minor, Dio Cassius, Epitome of Athenaeus, Roman Oration

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