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UNINA9910962235503321 |
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Autore |
Hill Susan E |
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Titolo |
Eating to excess : the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world / / Susan E. Hill |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , 2011 |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024 |
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ISBN |
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9798400643361 |
9786613255587 |
9781283255585 |
1283255588 |
9780313385070 |
0313385076 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (196 pages) |
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Collana |
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Praeger series on the ancient world |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civilization, Ancient |
Excess (Philosophy) |
Food habits - History |
Gluttony - History |
History, Ancient |
Human body - History |
Obesity - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"This book is about Eating to Excess - The Meaning of Gluttony and the |
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