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.

Fish and seafood
Murena/muraena moray eel, especially Muraena helena

Fruit

 * dates Date palm#Dates]

/Dates and figs fresco, Herculaneum


 * figs Common fig]

/Dates and figs fresco, Herculaneum


 * pomegranates 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

House of the Deer
/Dates and figs

Spain
Tarragona

/Hunting deer, Tarragona

Italy
/Fish mosaic, Aquileia

Spain
Tarragona

/Pomegranate mosaic, Tarragona

Martial
Martial, Epigrams, book 13 - Xenia

Ovid
Ovid, Fasti