Jason König

Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire

Examination of Greek athletics in the Roman Empire and how they were represented in the literature of the period....

Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, ...

Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

"Shedding new light on the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two millennia before the Enlightenment, this book traces the developm...

Saints and Symposiasts

The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture

Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and ear...

Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture

How did ancient scientific writers make their work authoritative? This volume answers that question for a wide range of disciplines...

Saints and symposiasts : the literature of food and the symposium in Greco-Roman and early Christian culture

Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman Empire....