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Late Antique Roman dining
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Sidonius Apollinaris
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social dining in the Late Roman Empire
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table customs
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- ISBN 9780520391451
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2024
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The history of dining is a story that cannot be told without archaeology. Surviving texts describe the opulent banquets of Rome’s wealthy elite but give little attention to the simpler, more intimate social gatherings of domestic invitation dinners. The lower classes, in particular, are largely ignored by literary sources. We can, however, find the voices of the underprivileged by turning to the material detritus of ancient cultures that reflects their social history. Dining at the End of Antiquity brings together the material culture and literary traditions of Romans at the table to reimagine dining culture as an integral part of Roman social order. Through a careful analysis of the tools and equipment of dining, Nicholas Hudson uncovers significant changes to the way different classes came together to share food and wine between the fourth and sixth centuries. Reconstructing the practices of Roman dining culture, Hudson explores the depths of new social distances between the powerful and the dependent at the end of antiquity.
Nicholas Hudson is Professor of Ancient Art and Archaeology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a researcher of Roman pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean, where he is currently principal investigator of Roman pottery at the Athenian Agora.
