Food, Sex, and Greek Identity in the Hedypatheia of Archestratos.
This paper is concerned with Archestratos' Hedypatheia , a mid-fourth-century BCE text that stands at the head of a rich tradition of Greek gastronomic literature. The first section is concerned with changing definitions of Greek identity in the fourth century and argues that Archestratos' work imag...
| Published in: | Classical Philology Vol. 117; no. 1; pp. 63 - 79 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jan2022
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