Dining Men: Posture, Leisure, and Privilege
Dining Men: Posture, Leisure, and Privilege
This chapter analyzes the link between reclining dining and otium within three types of media: literary texts, funerary monuments, and wall paintings. These media are treated separately not only because they emerge from and address themselves to different social strata, but also because each medium has a distinctive place in the spaces and rhythms of everyday Roman life. Thus, to discuss representations of reclining dining in the different media is also to discuss different producers, consumers, settings, and meanings for these representations, even though the activity represented in each case is broadly the same. These representations do allow for synthesis and cross-illumination, but only after the fundamental differences are carefully accounted for.
Keywords: reclining dining, otium, literary texts, funerary moments, wall paintings, social strate, Roman life
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