Taste or taboo : dietary choices in antiquity / Michael Beer.
- Beer, Michael.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Totnes : Prospect Books, 2010.
Physical description
152 pages ; 22 cm
Contributors
Contents
Diet in the ancient world -- Vegetarianism -- Beans -- Fish -- The dietary laws of the Jews -- Restrictions upon alcohol -- State control of food : Spartan diet and Roman sumptuary laws -- Gluttony versus abstinence : the tyrant and the saint.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Location Status History of MedicineDFW.AA1Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781903018637
- 1903018633