Dépenser/dévorer dans le monde gréco-romain. antiquité lived through both world wars

lived through both world wars

located on the southern edge of the Fayoum

It underlines the persistence of a Meroitic state in central Sudan

erased all traces of this settlement over the centuries

during the second half of the 2nd century

Dépenser/dévorer dans le monde gréco-romain. antiquité lived through both world warsIn Greece, as in Rome, it is through food that opulence takes shape and is put on display; symmetrically, the annihilation of wealth is instinctively conceived as ingestion. In the imagination of the Ancients, gluttony and prodigality, frugality and parsimony allow us to think about all behaviors marked by the sign of excess, as well as the proper exercise of power or speech. The studies brought together in this volume examine this contiguity of