Dépenser/dévorer dans le monde gréco-romain. antiquité Olivier Callot

Olivier Callot

le paysage

located on the southern edge of the Fayoum

anthropologist Tim Ingold proposes to deconstruct the hylomorphic philosophical model which

Dépenser/dévorer dans le monde gréco-romain. antiquité Olivier CallotIn 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