Food as Metaphor for Good and Evil in Biographies of the Later Roman Emperors
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.29142Abstract
The article argues that there is a strong emphasis in many of the biographies of the SHA (Scriptores Historiae Augustae) on eating habits as an indication either of moral steadfastness or of dissoluteness and decadence. The author(s) seem to take a particularly strong interest in all matters pertaining to food.
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