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.

Praeger series on the ancient world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Ancient.

Excess (Philosophy).

Food habits--History.

Food habits.

Gluttony--History.

Gluttony.

History, Ancient.

Human body--History.

Human body.

Obesity--History.

Obesity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book is about Eating to Excess - The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World"-- Provided by publisher.

"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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology of Important Dates; Introduction: The Glutton and the Fat Body in the Ancient World; 1. "All Fat Is the Lord's"; 2. Philosophizing Excess in Plato And Aristotle; 3. Inside and Out: Medicine, Health, and Physiognomy in the Ancient World; 4. Popular Gluttons and Fat Bodies: The Trickster Herakles, Petronius's Satyricon, and Athenaeus's: The Learned Banqueters; 5. Ingest the Word, Not the World: Early Christian Ideas of Excess and Self-Restraint; 6. Gluttony Becomes a Deadly Sin; Epilogue; Notes; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400643361

9786613255587

9781283255585

1283255588

9780313385070

0313385076

OCLC:

755413499