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

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781903018637
  • 1903018633