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Eating to excess : the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world / Susan E. Hill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Susan E.
- Series:
- Praeger series on the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food habits--History.
- Food habits.
- History.
- Gluttony--History.
- Gluttony.
- Human body--History.
- Human body.
- Obesity--History.
- Obesity.
- Excess (Philosophy).
- Civilization, Ancient.
- History, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 178 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2011]
- Summary:
- "This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today"--Provided by publisher.
- "This book is about Eating to Excess - The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 "All Fat Is the Lord's" 21
- 2 Philosophizing Excess in Plato And Aristotle 43
- 3 Inside and Out: Medicine, Health, and Physiognomy in the Ancient World 63
- 4 Popular Gluttons and Fat Bodies: The Trickster Herakles, Petronius's Satyricon, and Athenaeus's The Learned Banqueters 81
- 5 Ingest the Word, Not the World: Early Christian Ideas of Excess and Self-Restraint 103
- 6 Gluttony Becomes a Deadly Sin 121.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313385063
- 0313385068
- OCLC:
- 696099288
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