TY - BOOK AU - Harvey,David AU - Wilkins,John AU - Dobson,Mike TI - Food in antiquity SN - 0859894185 AV - GT2860 .F66 1995 U1 - 394.1/093 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Exeter PB - University of Exeter Press KW - Food KW - History KW - Food habits KW - Greece KW - Rome KW - Mediterranean Region KW - Gastronomy in literature KW - Food in literature KW - history KW - Greek World KW - Roman World KW - Feeding Behavior KW - Social life and customs KW - fast N1 - Colored reproduction on front cover: The Exeter Fish-plate. Commentary by Brian Sparkes with a bibliography; Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Alan Davidson -- General introduction / John Wilkins -- Acornutopia? Determining the role of acorns in past human subsistence / Sarah Mason -- Barley cakes and emmer bread / Thomas Braun -- Cereals, bread and milling in the Roman world / K.D. White -- Byzantine porridge : tracta, trachanas and tarhana / Stephen Hill and Anthony Bryer -- Bread-baking in ancient Italy : clibanus and sub testu in the Roman world / Anthony Cubberley -- Ethnoarchaeology and storage in the ancient Mediterranean : beyond risk and survival / Hamish Forbes and Lin Foxhall -- Molecular archaeology and ancient history / Robert Sallares -- The Roman meat trade / Joan Frayn -- The Apician sauce - ius apicianum / Jon Solomon -- Eating fish : the paradoxes of seafood / Nicholas Purcell -- A pretty kettle of fish / Brian Sparkes -- Fish from the Black Sea : classical Byzantium and the Greekness of trade / David Braund -- Cereal diet and the origins of man : myths of the Eleusinia in the context of ancient Mediterranean harvest festivals / Gerhard Baudy -- Ritual eating in archaic Greece : parasites and paredroi / Louise Bruit Zaidman -- Opsophagia : revolutionary eating at Athens / James Davidson -- Ancient vegetarianism / Catherine Osborne -- Fasting women in Judaisim and Christianity in late antiquity / Veronika Grimm --; (cont.) The most ancient recipies of all / Jean Bottero -- Food and 'frontier' in the Greek colonies of south Italy / Mario Lombardo -- Lydian specialties, Croesus' golden baking-woman, and dogs' dinners / David Harvey -- Persian food : stereotypes and political identity / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg -- The food of the prehistoric Celts / Peter Reynolds -- Food for Ptolemaic temple workers / Dorothy J. Thompson -- Food and archaeology in Romano-Byzantine Palestine / Shimon Dar -- Hippokratic diaita / Elizabeth Craik -- Food and blood in Hippokratic gynaecology / Helen King -- Galen and the traveller's fare / Vivian Nutton -- Oribasios and medical dietetics or the three Ps / Mark Grant -- Comic food and food for comedy / Dwora Gilula -- Archestratos : where and when? / Andrew Dalby -- Problems in Greek gastronomic poetry : on Matro's Attikon deipnon / Enzo Degani -- The sources and sauces of Athenaeus / John Wilkins and Shaun Hill ER -