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Summary:

"A new translation of Greco-Roman selections on what the ancients can teach us about living well-through eating well"-- [Provided by publisher]
"A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well Today, we're stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet books, doctors-all have advice on what, how much, and when to eat. This would have been no surprise to ancient Greeks and Romans. Their doctors were intensely interested in food, offered highly prescriptive dietary advice, and developed detailed systems to categorize foods and their health effects. How to Eat is a delectable anthology of Greco-Roman writings on how to eat, exercise, sleep, bathe, and manage your sex life for optimal health. It also gathers ancient opinions on specific foods of all sorts, from how to deploy onions to cure baldness and cabbage to get sober to whether lentils are healthy and why arugula increases your sex drive.With lively new translations by Claire Bubb, and the original Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, How to Eat features voices from medicine, philosophy, natural history, agriculture, and cooking, including Hippocrates, Pliny the Elder, Galen, Seneca, and Cato.While medicine and science have obviously changed enormously since the classical world, and some Greco-Roman beliefs about diet now appear hilariously off the mark, How to Eat reveals that much of their advice still resonates-and all of it is fascinating"-- [Provided by publisher]

Contributors:

Bubb, Claire , translator

Languages:

English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Latin

Language Notes:

Selected of works in Greek and Latin with translation in English.

Other Related Resources:

Print version: How to eat (Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2025] — ISBN 9780691256993; LCCN 2024023697)

Related Series:

Ancient wisdom for modern readers

Subjects:

Diet — Mediterranean Region — Early works to 1800

Nutrition — Greece — Early works to 1800

Nutrition — Rome — Early works to 1800

Food habits — Greece — Early works to 1800

Food habits — Rome — Early works to 1800

Functional foods — Early works to 1800

Diet

Nutrition

Food habits

Functional foods

Rome (Empire)

Mediterranean Region

Greece

Genres:

Early works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 04, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (liii, 242 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TX360.M37 H67 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780691261584 (electronic book)
069126158X (electronic book)
9780691256993 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024023698

OCLC Numbers:

1452966497