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Flashcards by sienna.wells, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by sienna.wells
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| A peasants dinner - Metamorphoses | -Cabbage -smoky pork -meat -green and black olives -cornel-berries -wine -endive and radishes -cheese -eggs -nuts and figs -dates -plums -sweet-smelling apples -purple grapes -honeycombs |
| A modest dinner - From Martial 'Epigrams' | -Cappadocian lettuce -strong leaks -Tuna fish -Sliced egg -Green cabbage -Small sausage -White grits -pale beans -red bacon -shrivelled grapes -Syrian pears -Neapolitan chestnuts -wine -olives -lupines -hot chickpeas |
| A fancy Dinner - Martial 'Epigrams' | -lettuce -tender shoots cut from leek plants -pickled young tuna -eggs -rue leaves -cheese from Velabrum street -olives -fish oysters -sow's udder -stuffed wild fowl -barnyard hens |
| Rules for a posh dinner party - who would the paterfamilias invite? | clients and business associates to a dinner party. |
| What would the guest of honour do? | lie on a couch nest to the paterfamilias |
| what might a wealthy family invite the guests to do? | Guests could be invited into their private bath house between courses |
| What did slaves do? | deliver many courses |
| what would impress guests? | food from exotic locations and food that was difficult to prepare. |
| What might entertainment include? | Poets, men telling jokes, dancing girls, musicians and gladiator fights |
| what does ena mean? | a roman dinner party |
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