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Les vertus thérapeutiques du banquet. Médecine et idéologie dans les Propos de Table de Plutarque. Bretagne and Post-A-Group remains from CemeteriesThis book examines a work from the Second Sophistic period that revives the scholarly discussions held at banquets between Plutarch and various guests. It proposes to study the place and function of medical theories and to systematically explore the relationship, little studied until now, that unites the fields of medicine and banqueting. This convivial event, as presented and idealized in Table Talk, has therapeutic and preventive virtues for the