It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Dining Posture in Ancient Rome by Matthew B. Roller
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What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining was an indicator of social position as well as an extended social occasion, dining posture offered a telling window into the day-to-day lives of the city's inhabitants. This book investigates the meaning and importance of the three principal dining postures--reclining, sitting, and standing--in the period 200 B.C.-200 A.D. It explores the social values and distinctions associated with each of the...
Dining Posture in Ancient Rome by Matthew B. Roller is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.
This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Dining Posture in Ancient Rome aloud.
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