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

Fish and seafood

Murena/muraena moray eel, especially Muraena helena

Fruit

• 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

• deer

Wine and other liquids

glass goblet with (possibly) wine or honey on /Dates and figs fresco, Herculaneum

Images

Frescoes

Italy

Herculaneum

House of the Deer

/Dates and figs

Spain

Tarragona

/Hunting deer, Tarragona

Mosaics

Italy

/Fish mosaic, Aquileia

Spain

Tarragona

/Pomegranate mosaic, Tarragona

Texts

Latin

Martial

Martial, Epigrams, book 13 - Xenia

Ovid

Ovid, Fasti