Sénèque et la cuisine romaine

Abstract

Seneca criticizes gastronomic luxury by providing us with many details of the refinement of Roman cuisine. If he criticizes the choice of the pursuit of the pleasures of the table, he attacks mostly a culinary diet and an unnatural way of life that favors night to day and artifice to simplicity. By eating, Man involves both the health of his body and the virtue of his soul.

Keywords

• food
• luxury
• Petronius
• Philo of Alexandria
• pleasure
• Seneca