The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World

ISBN-13: 9780815364344 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 362 str.

Paul Erdkamp; Claire Holleran

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World presents a comprehensive overview of the sources, issues and methodologies involved in the study of the Roman diet. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach in which all kinds of sources and disciplines are combined to study diet and nutrition.

Recenzje

"This book is an excellent source of up to date scholarly thinking about Roman food, from raw materials through finished product." - Antiqvvs Magazine

"[T]he volume presented here will be a useful starting point for all those concerned with the ancient diet. In particular, the steadily increasing amount of information which the natural sciences are able to provide for research on ancient diet has been incorporated into the sub-contributions in an exemplary manner." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review (translated from German)

"[I]l s’agit là d’un ouvrage de qualité qui réunit dans l’ensemble de bonnes et utiles synthèses qui pourront servir aussi bien aux étudiants qu’aux chercheurs."

(This is a work of quality that brings together good and useful summaries that can also be used both students and researchers) - Revue des Études Anciennes