Feasting and polis institutions /

Feasting and polis institutions /

Feasting and commensality formed the backbone of social life in the polis, the most characteristic and enduring form of political organization in the ancient Greek world. Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions reveals how feasts defined the religious and polit...

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Other Authors: Eijnde, Floris van den, 1975-, Blok, Josine., Strootman, Rolf.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 414.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004363922.

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Politics and culture > Greece > History.
Political customs and rites > Greece.
Fasts and feasts > Greece.
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.

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Call Number: JA75.7

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Feasting and Polis Institutions: An Introduction /
  • Floris van den Eijnde
  • Feasting in Early Iron Age Attika: The Evidence from the Site of the Academy /
  • Alexandra Alexandridou
  • Power Play at the Dinner Table: Feasting and Patronage between Palace and Polis in Attika /
  • Floris van den Eijnde
  • Feasting at the Sanctuary of Apollo Hyakinthos at Amykles: The Evidence from the Early Iron Age /
  • Vicky Vlachou
  • Consuming the Wild: More Thoughts on the Andreion /
  • James Whitley and Richard Madgwick
  • Individual and Collective in the Funding of Sacrifices in Classical Athens: The Sacrificial Calendar of the Marathonian Tetrapolis /
  • Stephen Lambert
  • Table Arrangements: Sitêsis as a Polis Institution (IG I3 131) /
  • Josine Blok and Evelyn van 't Wout
  • Measure for Measure: Fifth-Century Public Dining at the Tholos in Athens /
  • Ann Steiner
  • The Hellenistic Symposium as Feast /
  • Kathleen Lynch
  • When Did the Symposion Die? On the Decline of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet /
  • Marek Wecowski
  • The Return of the King: Civic Feasting and the Entanglement of City and Empire in Hellenistic Greece /
  • Rolf Strootman
  • The Macedonian Background of Hellenistic Panegyreis and Public Feasting /
  • Manuela Mari
  • Sharing the Civic Sacrifice: Civic Feast, Procession, and Sacrificial Division in the Hellenistic Period /
  • Stéphanie Paul
  • A Network of Hearths: Honors, Sacrificial Shares, and 'Traveling Meat' /
  • Jan-Mathieu Carbon.