Gastronomy/Food Images in Antiquity
This is a course on Food in Antiquity, main learning material is a database of images of food from Antiquity that can be connected to original Latin and Ancient Greek texts. A great tool for all interested in Classics, and everybody is welcome to participate. There are tons of Roman mosaics all over Europe, Asia and Africa depicting food and many of them remain obscure. There are also frescoes, pottery designs, and many other things that languish in the corners of various museums without proper attention. However, if we combine our efforts and bring them to light trying to match them with extant texts we will enrich our understanding of both texts and images alike and create a fabulous learning resource for Classics and Food History alike. Upload relevant pictures you might have taken during the trips, giving credit to the places of origin and try to match them with quotations from our sources.
Wikimedia gives us amazing tools for such a project, we can use links to Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wictionary, Wikispecies and even Wikivoyage sister sites to expand the commentary on every image and related quote, a luxury previous students of Classics never had. So, dextro pede, let's start.
Foods edit
Bread and cereals edit
Fish and seafood edit
Murena/muraena moray eel, especially Muraena helena
Fowl and eggs edit
Fruit edit
- dates [[[Wikipedia:Date palm#Dates|Date palm#Dates]]]
/Dates and figs fresco, Herculaneum
- figs [[[Wikipedia:Common fig|Common fig]]]
/Dates and figs fresco, Herculaneum
- pomegranates [[[Wikipedia:Pomegranate|Pomegranate]]]
/Pomegranate mosaic, Tarragona
Meat, milk and cheese edit
- deer
Oil and olives edit
Spices and condiments edit
Vegetables and pulses edit
Wine and other liquids edit
glass goblet with (possibly) wine or honey on /Dates and figs fresco, Herculaneum
Images edit
Frescoes edit
Italy edit
Herculaneum edit
House of the Deer edit
Spain edit
Tarragona
Mosaics edit
Italy edit
England edit
France edit
Germany edit
Greece edit
Spain edit
Tarragona
/Pomegranate mosaic, Tarragona
Cyprus edit
Israel edit
Turkey edit
Syria edit
Algeria edit
Egypt edit
Morocco edit
Tunis edit
Unknown edit
Texts edit
Greek edit
Latin edit
Apicius edit
Martial edit
Martial, Epigrams, book 13 - Xenia