This book provides three categories of investigation: 1) The Typology and Context of the Greco-Roman Banquet, 2) Who Was at the Greco-Roman Banquets, and 3) The Culture of Reclining. Together these studies establish festive meals as an essential lens into social formation in the Greco-Roman world.

Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Richard S. Ascough, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Carly Daniel Hughes, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Nancy A. Evans, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, USA Jennifer A. Glancy, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA Matthias Klinghardt, Institut für evangelische Theologie, Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany Lillian I. Larsen, University of Redlands, USA Susan Marks, New College of Florida, USA Carolyn Osiek, rscj, Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas, USA Jordan D. Rosenblum is Belzer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Dennis E. Smith, Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Angela Standhartinger, Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg, Germany Hal E. Taussig, Union Theological Seminary in New York, USA