IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 708: Taste and Disgust in Late Antiquity, III: Elite Life
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Postgraduate & Early-Career Late Antiquity Network |
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| Organiser: | Henry Anderson, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ella Kirsh, Department of Classics, Brown University |
| Paper 708-a | Symmachus' Taste in Epistolary Practice: Breuitas and Maturum aliquid et comicum (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Latin, Pagan Religions, Rhetoric |
| Paper 708-b | 'Ne gustus quidem causa': Barbarians and Roman Tastes - A Note about Codex Justinianus 4.41.1 (373) (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 708-c | A Taste of Wine at the Court of Athalaric: Some Remarks from Cassiodorus, Variae XII, 4 on the Spread of Vinum rusticum in Ostrogothic Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | This session explores Late Antique elite tastes and how these tastes both shaped society and were themselves regulated and controlled by elites. The first paper (Lubello) seeks to identify the epistolary tastes of Symmachus, and how they impacted his correspondence, through an analysis of instructive letters sent to his son. The second paper (Costa) tracks Valentinian I's legislative efforts to place limitations on trade with barbarians in order to prevent their development of tastes for Roman produce. The third paper (Reano) attempts to reconstruct aspects of Roman-Ostrogothic elite society through its appreciation and use of wine, focusing on its impact on economic activities and trade beyond Italy. |