This is a broad-based, comprehensive general study of food in antiquity. The book deals with food as food or nutrition, the discussion revolving around the concrete issues of food availability and the nutritional status of the population. It also treats the nonfood uses of food, focusing on the role of food in forming and marking the social hierarchy. Food defines the group, whether social, religious, philosophical or political.
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"...this reviewer found the book most valuable, especially in its findings on (mal)nutrition. Its engaging and honest style, moderate price in paperback, and brevity make it a sensible choice for undergraduate courses on classical antiquity, and its bold position on the nutritional status of most individuals in antiquity has made an important contribution to a vital scholarly debate." The Historian
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This is a general study of food in antiquity, broadly based and comprehensive. The book deals with food as food or nutrition, the discussion revolving around the concrete issues of food availability and the nutritional status of the population. It also treats the non-food uses of food, focusing on the role of food in forming and marking the social hierarchy. Food defines the group, whether social, religious, philosophical or political.
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This is a handy little reference. If there's a shortcoming, it's that the short length of the volume will leave you hungry for more.
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The Mediterranean diet is healthier than the diets of the affluent societies of the West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The Mediterranean diet is healthier than the diets of the affluent societies of the West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dry legumes, century tic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece by Andrew Dalby in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets (Studies in Archaeology) by R. I. Gilbert in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture by Marvin Harris in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- De observatione ciborum by Mark Grant in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome by Amy Richlin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Eating Your Way Through Luke's Gospel by Robert J. Karris on page 11, and Back Matter
- The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays (Garland Medieval Casebooks) by Melitta Weiss Adamson on page 13, and Back Matter
- The Freedman in Roman Art and Art History by Lauren Hackworth Petersen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs) by Dionysios Ch Stathakopoulos on page 83
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