Dining Posture in Ancient Rome (eBook)

Bodies, Values, and Status

Matthew B. Roller (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8824-5 (ISBN)

Infos

What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining was an indicator of social position as well as an extended social occasion, dining posture offered a telling window into the day-to-day lives of the city's inhabitants. This book investigates the meaning and importance of the three principal dining postures--reclining, sitting, and standing--in the period 200 B.C.-200 A.D. It explores the social values and distinctions associated with each of the postures and with the diners who assumed them. Roller shows that dining posture was entangled with a variety of pressing social issues, such as gender roles and relations, sexual values, rites of passage, and distinctions among the slave, freed, and freeborn conditions. Timely in light of the recent upsurge of interest in Roman dining, this book is equally concerned with the history of the body and of bodily practices in social contexts. Roller gathers evidence for these practices and their associated values not only from elite literary texts, but also from subelite visual representations--specifically, funerary monuments from the city of Rome and wall paintings of dining scenes from Pompeii. Engagingly written, Dining Posture in Ancient Rome will appeal not only to the classics scholar, but also to anyone interested in how life was lived in the Eternal City.

Autor

Matthew B. Roller is Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Constructing Autocracy: Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome (Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2017
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Acculturation • Adult • adultery • American Council of Learned Societies • ancient art • Ancient Greek art • Ancient Greek comedy • Ancient Rome • Anecdote • Antyllus • Apuleius • archaeology • Archaic Greece • aristocracy • Bacchides (play) • Bakery • Battle of Philippi • Britannicus • Cassius Dio • Cato the Elder • Catullus • classical Athens • Claudius • Cognate • Cognomen • Concubinage • Confucius • Consummation • Contemporary Society • Controversia • convivio • Costume • courtesan • courtesy • cremation • Culture of ancient Rome • Cupid and Psyche • declamation • De officiis • Diner • Dining in • dining posture • dining room • Dio Chrysostom • Diodorus Siculus • Dionysius of Halicarnassus • Dionysus • drapery • Drinking • Droll • eating • Economics • Elegiac • empire-building • Epigraphy • eroticism • erudition • Everyday life • Extended family • free adults • freeborn children • freedman • funerary moments • Furniture • gender roles • Good in Bed • Handbook • Hellenistic period • Heroides • Historical Aspects • Holy Roman Empire • Horace Serm. 2.8 • Hospitium • Household • humiliation • Iconography • ideological aspects • Ideology • Imperial period • Indication (medicine) • injunction • Interior design • Ipso facto • johns hopkins • Juvenal • Latin Literature • Lectisternium • Libation • literary texts • livy • Loculus (architecture) • Loculus (satchel) • male scrutiny • mattress • meal • Merchant vessel • Messalina • Military Service • Monograph • moral decline • mostellaria • Mourning • Munera (ancient Rome) • narrative • N. (novella) • nudity • Ostia (Rome) • otium • Ottoman dynasty • Ottoman Empire • Panel painting • Parody • peristyle • physical environments • Plautus • Plautus' Stichus • Pliny the Elder • Plutarch • Poetry • Popina • Posture • Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) • praetor • Princeton University Press • Promiscuity • Prostitution • proxemics • Pudicitia • quaestor • Quintilian • reclining dining • residence • rhetoric • Rites of Passage • Roman Art • Roman banquets • Roman convivia • Roman convivium • Roman Culture • Roman dining • Roman dining practice • Roman dining practices • Roman Empire • Roman foodways • roman life • Roman naming conventions • Sarcophagus • Satire • Satire 5 • Scipio Aemilianus • Sempronius Gracchus • sexual intercourse • Sexuality in ancient Rome • slaves • Social Class • Social Dynamics • Social Hierarchies • Social integration • social position • Social Practice • Social practice (art) • Social reality • Social Status • social strate • Social Value • sociocultural approach • spouse • Status group • Stola • Suetonius • Suggestion • tabularium • Tacitus • tavern • terence • The Erotic • The Other Hand • The Various • The Wedding Banquet • Toga • toga virilis • Townhouse • Trajan • treatise • triclinium • Trimalchio • Trimalchio's dinner • tunic • Upholstery • URN • Valerius Maximus • Vitellius • Vitruvius • wall paintings • Wealth • women's dining
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8824-7 / 1400888247
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8824-5 / 9781400888245