The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII
The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII

Author: Athenaeus

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-01-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674996731

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In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs, the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).

Hellenistic Collection
Hellenistic Collection

Author: Philētas

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13: 9780674996366

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A miscellany of rare Hellenistic prose and poetry.

The Classical Tradition
The Classical Tradition

Author: Anthony Grafton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-10-25

Total Pages: 1188

ISBN-13: 9780674035720

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The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

A Banqueter's Guide To The All-Night Soup Kitchen Of The Kingdom Of God
A Banqueter's Guide To The All-Night Soup Kitchen Of The Kingdom Of God

Author: Patrick T. McCormick

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0814639755

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When Jesus spoke at the tale he provided instructions for his disciples to follow. A Banqueter's Guide to the All-Night Soup Kitchen of the Kingdom of God views those teachings as a set of guidelines for us to follow in all areas of life. Through the study of metaphors commonly used to describe the Eucharist, this book connects the Eucharist and Jesus' words and actions with current issues in society. Each chapter defines a metaphor associated with the Eucharist and explores its moral, social, and ethical implications. Readers will become more aware of the need for social justice as they identify with the parables and guidance of Jesus. Chapters are: Take and Eat," *Breaking Bread, - *This is My Body, - and *An Unbloody Sacrifice. - Patrick T. McCormick, STP, is associate professor of Christian ethics at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny
The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny

Author: Jeffrey Henderson

Publisher: Loeb Classical Monographs

Published: 2020-09

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780674248717

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The papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny explore the legacy for which James Loeb is best known, the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it inspired, and take stock of these series in light of more general themes bearing on translations of "classical" texts and their audiences.

Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art
Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art

Author: Kristen Seaman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1108490913

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Explores how rhetorical techniques helped to produce innovations in art of the Hellenistic courts at Pergamon and Alexandria.

The Roman Banquet
The Roman Banquet

Author: Katherine M. D. Dunbabin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9780521822527

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Dining was an important social occasion in the classical world. Scenes of drinking and dining decorate the wall paintings and mosaic pavements of many Roman houses. They are also painted in tombs and carved in relief on sarcophagi and on innumerable smaller grave monuments. Drawing frequently upon ancient literature inscriptions as well as archaeological evidence, this book examines the visual and material evidence for dining through Roman antiquity. Richly illustrated, Roman Banqueting offers the fullest and varied picture of the role of the banquet in Roman life.

Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush
Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush

Author: Casey Dué

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674035591

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The tenth book of the Iliad has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned in Homeric scholarship. Using established methods for interpreting oral traditional poetry, however, Due and Ebbott illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable, and they demonstrate how the episode shares in the oral traditional nature of the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to its nocturnal ambush plot. True to their multitextual approach to the text, Due and Ebbott have included a series of critical texts of Iliad 10, including the tenth-century Venetus A manuscript and select papyri, and discuss these individual witnesses and the variations they offer. The essays and commentary explore Iliad 10 within the larger contexts of Homeric epic and the epic tradition. --Book Jacket.

Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece
Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece

Author: Paul Halstead

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2016-12-31

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1785705091

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Food and drink, along with the material culture involved in their consumption, can signify a variety of social distinctions, identities and values. Thus, in Early Minoan Knossos, tableware was used to emphasize the difference between the host and the guests, and at Mycenaean Pylos the status of banqueters was declared as much by the places assigned to them as by the quality of the vessles form which they ate and drank. The ten contributions to this volume highlight the extraordinary opportunity for multi-disciplinary research in this area.