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