Mangiare e dimagrire: alimentazione e medicina nella Roma d’età antonina

Abstract

The De victu attenuante (‘The Thinning Diet’), one of the least-studied works in the Corpus Galenicum,
dating from the second half of Marcus Aurelius’ reign, is not only a fundamental text on dietetics – in the overall sense of
a therapeutic approach based on both regimen and diet – but also offers a valuable opportunity to grasp the inseparable
link between food, territory and health in a well-defined phase of the Roman-Imperial age.

Keywords: food, medicine, imperial Rome, society, culture.