Eating to excess : the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world / / Susan E. Hill
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , 2011 |
| New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 394.1/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civilization, Ancient |
| Excess (Philosophy) | |
| Food habits - History | |
| Gluttony - History | |
| History, Ancient | |
| Human body - History | |
| Obesity - History | |
| Classificazione: | HIS002000HIS037000 |
| 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"-- | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Eating to excess |
| ISBN: | 9798400643361 |
| 9786613255587 | |
| 9781283255585 | |
| 1283255588 | |
| 9780313385070 | |
| 0313385076 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910962235503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Praeger series on the ancient world.