Food And Drink sources Flashcards
(23 cards)
According to columella, what was the storehouse divided into rooms for?
Oil, presses and wine
Where were dry foods stored, according to Columella?
Lofts (eg grain, hay, leaves, chaff)
What products were kept downstairs for selling, according to columella?
Liquid products (Eg wine/oil)
What features should granaries have, according to columella?
Should be accessible by ladders.
Should be ventilated by small windows facing north.
(Most cold and least wet to help preserve grain)
What features should the wine room have according to columella?
Should be far away from the baths, oven, manure and places which “give off a foul smell.”
Should be away from cisterns and springs, as moisture is given off and spoils the wine
Were donkeys (in mills) fed often and enough, according to Apuleius?
They were not fed often. When they were released from their harnesses, they were ‘dying of hunger.’ However, they were given a ‘generous supply of food.’
Why did columella say that press rooms and oil rooms should be warm?
Every liquid is made thin by heat and thickens when it is cold. If oil freezes, it goes bad
Where should the orchards be, according to columella?
In a place to which all sewage from barnyard and baths flow, because vegetables and trees enjoy this nourishment
According to columella, how does an owner test the quality of his slaves’ bread?
By tasting it
Is Horace’s satire reliable?
No, it is a satire so it is exaggerated. It also compares animals to people
Why is Horace’s satires reliable?
It is one of the few sources available on food outside towns
What was the serving of different foods at the same dinner party a form of?
Social discrimination. Important guests were given expensive food while freedmen/clients were given cheaper food
Why was free bread sometimes handed out?
- for bribery in elections
- in terms of starvation
- when corn supply was short
- to stop crowds rioting
What does Cicero think of butchers and bakers?
He approves of them as they “provide for bodily pleasures”
Give some examples of food for wealthy people, from martial epigrams
Oysters fattened in the lucrine pool
Mushrooms
Turbot
Golden turtle dove
Give some examples of food for poor people from martial epigrams
Mussel
Pig fungi
Bream
Magpie that died in its cag
How did people get themselves dinner invitations according to martial epigrams
Following someone around the public baths (hermogenes followed him)
Give compliments
Bring drinks
Express amazement at everything
What does martial epigrams say about company in dinging situations
It is better to eat poorly with someone else than do it alone (he invites toranius to eat with him)
What food does martial offer toranius?
Cheap cappadocian lettuce Smelly leeks Tunny hidden in egg-halves A green cabbage Sausage lying on white boiled wheat Pale beans with red bacon Withered grapes Pears which bear the name Syrian Chestnuts Wine Noble olives Hot chickpeas Warm lupines
What entertainment does martial offer toranius?
A flute player who will play something light and unamusing
Not a speech, or dancing girls
According to Ovid fasti, what foods to the gods in the depths of the Styx enjoy
Sprinkled corn and a few grains of salt, and bread softened in wine (put in a jar and left in the middle of the road)
Do people drink a lot at the feast of Anna perenna according to Ovid fasti?
Yes. Ordinary folk sit on the green grass drinking. They pray for as many years as the cups they take. They go dancing, and when they return they stagger.
(“A drunken old woman was dragging along a drunken old man”)
Was food sold at the baths, according to Seneca the younger?
Yes, he could hear shouts of the drinks-seller and sausage-seller and pastry-seller
