Archestratus In Perspective
the Ingredients
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27905Keywords:
Archestratus , ancient Greece, ingredients, quality hierarchies, sensory faculties, culinary traits, social history, connoisseurshipAbstract
The fourth-century bc Sicilian poet Archestratus was the author of the oldest surviving text from ancient Greece on the pleasure of consuming food. This paper concentrates on the specific foods – in culinary terminology, ingredients – mentioned in the surviving verses and their bearing on the history of ancient Greek food.
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