Author: Nielsen, Inge ; & Nielsen, Hanne Sigismund ; editors:
Title: Meals in a Social Context : Aspects of the Communal Meal in the Hellenistic and Roman World
Description: Aarhus [Denmark], Aarhus University Press, 1998. orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 24x16cm, 245 pp. Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity, 1.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Salt, fish and the sea in the Roman Empire / Peter Ørsted -- The Roman family at dinner / Keith Bradley -- Roman children at mealtimes / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen -- Eating with the dead: the Roman funerary banquet / Hugh Lindsay -- Ut Graeco more biberetur: Greeks and Romans on the dining couch / Katherine Dunbabin -- Royal banquets: the development of royal banquets and banqueting halls from Alexander to the Tetrarchs / Inge Nielsen -- The sixth hour is the mealtime for scholars: Jewish meals in a Roman world / David Noy -- The common meal in the Qumran-Essene communities / Per Bilde -- Sacred meal and sacred meeting: Paul’s argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34 / Geert Hallbäck --Regulating fellowship in the communal meal: early Jewish and Christian evidence / L. Michael White.

Keywords: Classical Antiquity, Greek, Roman, Social History, Dining, Food, Ancient Greece, Rome,