Contents
Introduction
The Problem of Sybaris
The Vocabulary of Luxury
The Moral Implications of Τρυφή
The Septuagint
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Luxury as a Historiographical Principle in Herodotus
Soft Lands and Soft People
The Weakness of the Persians
Strength in Poverty
Ἐπιμέλεια
Pernicious Luxury in History
Chapter 3. Citation and Cover Text in Athenaeus
The Parlor Games of Athenaeus
Alteration and Reinterpretation
Formulae of Citation
Compositional Drift
Framing Language
Formulae with Τρυφή
Conclusion
Chapter 4. The Fragmentary Writers
Clearchus
Ctesias
Ephorus
Theopompus
Heraclides Ponticus
The Fragmentary Evidence for Sybaris
Chapter 5. The Theme of Corrupting Luxury at Rome
The Latin Evidence
Greek Literature of the Roman World
Polybius
Diodorus Siculus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Strabo
Philo Judaeus
Josephus
Dio Chrysostom
Athenaeus
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Verborum Graecorum
Index Nominum et Rerum