TY - BOOK ID - 17569004 TI - Food and society in classical antiquity PY - 1999 SN - 9780521645881 0521645883 0521641829 9780521641821 9780511612534 051117330X 0511066228 0511059914 0511324960 0511612532 1280420421 1139145967 0511068352 1107116260 9780511066221 9780511068355 9780511059919 6610420424 9786610420421 9781280420429 9781139145961 9780511173301 9780511324963 9781107116269 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Civilization, Classical KW - Food habits KW - Food supply KW - 394.12093 KW - Food control KW - Produce trade KW - Agriculture KW - Food security KW - Single cell proteins KW - Eating KW - Food customs KW - Foodways KW - Human beings KW - Habit KW - Manners and customs KW - Diet KW - Nutrition KW - Oral habits KW - Classical civilization KW - Civilization, Ancient KW - Classicism KW - History KW - Social sciences Food Ancient World KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Civilization, Classical. KW - Habitudes alimentaires KW - Aliments KW - Civilisation ancienne KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Approvisionnement KW - Greece KW - Rome KW - Civilization [Classical ] KW - Food habits - Greece - History - To 1500 KW - Food habits - Rome KW - Food supply - Greece - History - To 1500 KW - Food supply - Rome UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17569004 AB - This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease, are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism. Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires, especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can be either integrative or divisive. The book explores food taboos in Greek, Roman, and Jewish society, and food-allocation within the family, as well as more familiar cultural and economic polarities which are highlighted by food and eating. The author draws on a wide range of evidence new and old, from written sources to human skeletal remains, and uses both comparative historical evidence from early modern and contemporary developing societies and the anthropological literature, to create a case-study of food in antiquity. ER -