Food and the sacred, through the themes of the sacrificial meal in ancient Greece and an analysis of certain trends in modern food.

Political and social dissertation on the sacrificial meal in ancient Greece (food and the relationship with the sacred; food, sharing and social order; validity of general theories of sacrifice in the Greek case) and a selective overview of modernity in food (medicalisation of the relationship with the body; food as a way of life or the secularisation of notions of asceticism and purity; the phenomena of ‘food delinquency’, bulimia, anorexia, etc.).