Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eating to excess

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

759006655

Responsibility statement

Susan E. Hill

Series statement

Praeger series on the ancient world

Sub title

the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction: the glutton and the fat body in the ancient world -- All fat is the lord's -- Philosophizing excess in Plato and Aristotle -- Inside and out: medicine, health, and physiognomy in the ancient world -- Popular gluttons and fat bodies: the trickster Herakles, Petronius's Satyricon, and Anthenaeus's The learned banqueters -- Ingest the world, not the world: early Christian ideas of excess and self-restraint -- Gluttony becomes a deadly sin

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