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Table culture
(3,352 words)
[German version] A. General observations and sources In the wider sense, table culture refers to all practices linked to nutrition, to concrete activities as well as their symbolic representations. This new comprehensive approach to ancient TC owes a lot to the advances in anthropology since Claude Levi-Strauss; anthropological research has revealed astonishing interconnections between the TCs of the societies under examination. The task is no longer merely to list the foods produced and consumed, to k…
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Cookery books
(807 words)
[German version] I. Near East and Egypt Although there is copious epigraphical and graphic evidence for a highly developed table culture at the courts of oriental rulers in antiquity, cooking recipes are known to us so…
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Food offerings
(410 words)
[German version] Generally, a sacrificial offering in food form, raw (the first fruit of harvest, a cup of wine) or cooked (such as a pot of porridge or the πανσπερμία/
panspermía, a mixture of first fruit or seeds), dedicated to the gods or the dead. The term comprises the offering of consecrated meat, cereals and other vegetarian foodstuffs (vegetables, fruit, cake, cheese), as well as different liquids (wine, milk, honey-based drinks etc.); it includes also the offering of whole meals (
theoxénia ) and animal sacrifice (sacrifice). Offerings of vegeta…
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Caelius
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Plebeian family name (in MSS frequently confused with Coelius), attested from the 2nd cent. BC. (ThlL, Onom. 24-26). I. Republican Age [German version] [I 1] C., C. praetor or propraetor in Gallia Cisalpina in 90 BC
praetor or
propraetor in Gallia Cisalpina in 90 BC (Liv. per. 73; MRR 2,25). Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [I 2] C., C. see C. Coelius. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [I 3] C., M. People's tribune in the 2nd cent. BC People's tribune in the 2nd cent. BC, against whom Cato -- perhaps as censor in 184 BC -- directed a speech (ORF I4 46-48) [1. 86]. Elver…
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Banquet
(3,705 words)
[German version] I. Egypt and the ancient Orient The central Egyptian sources of information regarding banquets are the depictions of the funerary banquet in the tombs of Theban officials dating from the 18th dynasty (15th -14th cents. BC). The early pictures show the tomb's occupant with his spouse as the host in front of a table loaded with dishes of food and faced by their guests in several rows. Serva…
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Cook
(576 words)
[German version] The Greek term μάγειρος (
mágeiros) covers three different functions: that of the sacrificing priest who slices the throat of the sacrificial animal, that of the butcher …
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Gastronomy
(804 words)
[German version] A. Origins The art of cooking, which is the search for a balance of flavours, the preference for certain kinds of wine etc., in short, good taste in matters of nourishment, probably always existed in the ancient world but only became the subject of scientific discourse in the classical period. (This impression is based on the current state of documentation.) In antiquity the development of a true art of cooking was considered in a contradictory way both a sign of a high degree of ci…
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Sigma
(292 words)
[German version] Semicircular dining sofa, named after the later form of the Greek letter , which in the Roman world gradually took the place of the
triclinium and took over entirely in the 4th and 5th cents. AD. Exactly when the
s. established itself among the Romans cannot be determined. The first archaeologically attested
sígmata, which are identifiable from floor mosaics, can be dated to no earlier than the end of the 2nd cent. or the beg…
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Heraclides
(4,218 words)
(Ἡρακλείδης;
Hērakleídēs). Famous persons: the politician and writer H. [19] Lembus, the philosopher H. [16] Ponticus the Younger, the doctor H. [27] of Tarentum. I. Political figures [German version] [1] Spokesman on behalf of Athens at the Persian court, end of 5th cent. BC H. of Clazomenae (cf. Pl. Ion 541d) was in the service of the Persians and probably called
basileús for that reason. Thus, he was able to perform valuable services for Athens at the Persian court in 423 BC for which he received Attic citizenship soon after moving there (after 400, Syll.3 118). To move the Athenians to stronger participation in the
ekklesia, he had the payment to each participant increased from one obol to two (Aristot. Ath. Pol. 41,3), which was in Aristotle's opinion a (radical) democratic measure (Aristot. Pol. 1297a 35-38). Högemann, Peter (Tübingen) Bibliography M. H. Hansen, Die athenische Demokratie im Zeitalter des Demosthenes, 1995, 155. …
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Kline
(379 words)
[German version] (κλίνη;
klínē, bed). The
kline was used for sleeping, and in Greece from the 7th/6th cents. BC (later in Rome) also for dining. The
kline was the most important object of luxurious interior decoration; it had its place in private houses as well as in all rooms in which people ate ( Banquet, Prytaneion, Ritual feasts). As to public rooms in which
klinai were used for banquets, one must distinguish between halls designated specifically for meals, in which the furniture could stay in place, and rooms used for meals only sporadically, for which the
klinai, like all other furni…
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Anthimus
(238 words)
(Ἀνθίμος;
Anthímos). [German version] [1] Greek doctor Greek doctor who soon after AD 511 wrote a brief Latin treatise in letter form about dietetics,
De observatione ciborum ad Theodoricum regem Francorum epistula. As a medical treatise and book of remedies, the work offered a description of the dietary customs of a Germanic tribe. It is written in a language associated with one of the colloquial languages of the people of his time, and his region (vulgar Latin). Schmitt-Pantel, Pauline …
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Archestratus
(351 words)
(Ἀρχέστρατος;
Archéstratos). [German version] [1] Actor and Tragedian With his tragedy
Antaios, an unknown actor triumphed at the Soteria in Delphi between 267 and 219 BC (DID B 11, 5). He is probably not to be identified with the A. mentioned in Plut. Aristides 1,3 (318e). Pressler, Frank (Heidelberg) Bibliography Mette, 198 TrGF 75. [German version] [2] Author of a gastronomic poem from Gela, 4th cent. BC Citizen of Gela who lived in the 2nd half of the 4th cent. BC. 62 fragments (more than 300 verses) of his gastronomic poem, written
c. AD 330, have been preserved by Athenaeus. Its …
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Triclinium
(508 words)
[German version] (τρικλίν[ι]ον;
triklín[i]on). Roman dining room, or in the narrower sense, a group of three couches (Latin
lectus;
klínē ), on each of which three guests could take their places. Their arrangement around a central round or rectangular table was the typical Roman furnishing for the dinin…
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