03517nam 2200877 a 450 991096223550332120110613181051.097984006433619786613255587978128325558512832555889780313385070031338507610.5040/9798400643361(CKB)2550000000045506(EBL)766987(OCoLC)755413499(SSID)ssj0000543531(PQKBManifestationID)11371299(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543531(PQKBWorkID)10530809(PQKB)10346957(Au-PeEL)EBL766987(CaPaEBR)ebr10496642(CaONFJC)MIL325558(DLC)BP9798400643361BC(MiAaPQ)EBC766987(Perlego)4169206(OCoLC)696099288(EXLCZ)99255000000004550620110603e20112024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEating to excess the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world /Susan E. Hill1st ed.Santa Barbara, Calif. :Praeger,2011.New York :Bloomsbury Publishing (US),2024.1 online resource (196 pages)Praeger series on the ancient worldDescription based upon print version of record.(OCoLC)696099288 9798216077114 9780313385063 0313385068 Includes bibliographical references and index.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"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.Praeger series on the ancient world.Civilization, AncientExcess (Philosophy)Food habitsHistoryGluttonyHistoryHistory, AncientHuman bodyHistoryObesityHistoryCivilization, Ancient.Excess (Philosophy)Food habitsHistory.GluttonyHistory.History, Ancient.Human bodyHistory.ObesityHistory.394.1/2HIS002000HIS037000bisacshHill Susan E1795631DLCDLCUtOrBLWBOOK9910962235503321Eating to excess4337029UNINA