Description: This book studies a book from the Second Sophistic, which revives the erudite discussions held at banquets by Plutarch and his various guests. The book proposes to study the place and function of medical theories and to systematically explore the relationship between medicine and the banquet. This convivial manifestation, as it is pr
Brief description: Maria Vamvouri Ruffy est chargee de cours au Centre de langues et litteratures europeennes comparees de l'Universite de Lausanne. Elle est l'auteur du livre La fabrique du divin: Les Hymnes de Callimaque a la lumiere des Hymnes homeriques et des Hymnes epigraphiques, Liege 2004 (Kernos supplement 14) et dun certain nombre darticles sur Plutarque, la tragedie, la comedie grecques et les reconfigurations contemporaines de mythes grecs.