Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Self-Assertion and Its Alternatives in Ancient Scientific and Technical Writing -- 2 Philosophical Authority in the Imperial Period -- 3 Philosoph…
"This book offers an accessible, comprehensive account of the multifaceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. It covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scienti…
Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk genre, derived from Plato's Symposium and ot…
Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk genre, derived from Plato's Symposium and ot…
Conversation and community -- Locating the symposium -- Voice and community in sympotic literature -- Plutarch -- Athenaeus -- Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium -- Methodius -- Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in late antiquity -- Macrobius -- Consu…
