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Food in antiquity / edited by John Wilkins, David Harvey & Mike Dobson ; foreword by Alan Davidson.

Contributor(s): Harvey, David (F. David) | Wilkins, John, 1954- | Dobson, Mike (Michael J.)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995 Description: xiii, [1], 459 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0859894185Subject(s): To 1500 | Food -- History | Food habits -- History | Food habits -- Greece -- History | Food habits -- Rome -- History | Food habits -- Mediterranean Region -- History | Gastronomy in literature | Food in literature | Food -- history | Greek World | Roman World | Feeding Behavior -- history | Greece -- Social life and customs | Food HistoryGenre/Form: History | History.DDC classification: 394.1/093 | 641.30093 LOC classification: GT2860 | .F66 1995
Contents:
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.
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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.

Lib. copy is 1999 reprint [i.e., printing].