Dépenser/dévorer dans le monde gréco-romain. antiquité the drawings of the masters

the drawings of the masters are now the subject of a passionate quest by amateurs

during the second half of the 2nd century

Olivier Callot

It underlines the persistence of a Meroitic state in central Sudan

Dépenser/dévorer dans le monde gréco-romain. antiquité the drawings of the mastersIn 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