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The Insatiable Table: Food, Desire & Excess in Ancient Rome

Series: The Other Hunger— A History of Food, Sex & Seduction Across TimePart 2 of 4 If ancient Greece approached desire with the careful deliberation of a philosopher selecting the perfect argument, ancient Rome approached it the way Rome approached everything else: with unlimited ambition, no apparent ceiling, and a complete conviction that more wasContinue reading “The Insatiable Table: Food, Desire & Excess in Ancient Rome”