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The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature
The Loaded Table Representations of Food in Roman Literature Author:Emily Gowers This book offers a novel approach to Roman culture, looking at food as it is represented in literature. Gowers addresses many of the problems that arise when a material subject is translated into words, and contains fresh interpretations of Latin texts that have been unjustly undervalued--comedy, satire, epigrams, letters, and iambics. While oft... more »en regarded as something trivial, food was in fact one of the most suggestive images for Roman civilization.« less