Feasting and polis institutions /
"Feasting and commensality were vital to the great resilience of the polis, Greece's most characteristic and enduring form of political organization. Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions reveals how feasts defined the religious and political instit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2018]
Leiden ; Boston : [2018] |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava Supplementum ;
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| Summary: | "Feasting and commensality were vital to the great resilience of the polis, Greece's most characteristic and enduring form of political organization. Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions reveals how feasts defined the religious and political institutions of the Greek citizen-state. Taking the reader from the Early Iron Age to the Imperial Period, this volume launches an essential inquiry into Greek power relations. Focusing on the myriad of patronage roles at the feast and making use of a wide variety of methodologies and primary sources, including archaeology, epigraphy and literature, Feasting and Polis Institutions argues that in ancient Greece political interaction could never be complete until it was consumed in a very literal sense"-- |
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| Item Description: | Papers presented at a conference held at Utrecht University on January 16-19, 2014 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC "This book is the product of a three-day conference held at Utrecht University on January 16-19, 2014, made possible by the Utrecht University strategic scheme Institutions for Open Societies and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)."-- |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 384 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 25 cm xiii, 384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 900435672X 9789004356726 |
| ISSN: | 2352-8656 2352-8656 ; |