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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962235503321

Autore

Hill Susan E

Titolo

Eating to excess : the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world / / Susan E. Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , 2011

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

9798400643361

9786613255587

9781283255585

1283255588

9780313385070

0313385076

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages)

Collana

Praeger series on the ancient world

Classificazione

HIS002000HIS037000

Disciplina

394.1/2

Soggetti

Civilization, Ancient

Excess (Philosophy)

Food habits - History

Gluttony - History

History, Ancient

Human body - History

Obesity - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is about Eating to Excess - The Meaning of Gluttony and the



Fat Body in the Ancient World"--

"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"--