Performing Foundation: the Gendered Role of Baking in Ovid’s Fasti

Ovid’s Fasti suggests that in Rome’s early times, the baking and sharing of bread and cakes, traditionally the most domestic of activities, offered a model of matronal authority that not only honoured the gods but emphasised the fundamental value of hospitality towards strangers and the needy;...

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Main Author: Carole E. Newlands
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Université de Lille 2021-01-01
Series:Eugesta
Online Access:http://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/index.php?id=131