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In this video, we take a look at the food that was eaten by the Ancient Greeks from the age of Homer to the age of Alexander.
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Heavy Heart
Temple of the Manes
Teller of the Tales
Sources
[1] Dalby, Andrew and Sarah Granger. "The Classical Cookbook." The British Museum Press, 2012.
[2] Flint-Hamilton, Kimberly B. “Legumes in Ancient Greece and Rome: Food, Medicine, or Poison?” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, vol. 68, no. 3, 1999, pp. 371–85. JSTOR, doi.org/10.2307/148493.
jstor.org/stable/148493
[3] "Ancient Greek Cuisine." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_cuisine
[4] Gannon, Megan. "Ancient Greeks Used Portable Grills at Their Picnics." Livescience.com, 8 Jan. 2014 livescience.com/42414-ancient-cooking-mycenaeans-portable-grills.html
[5] Plutarch. "The Life of Pelopidas." The Parallel Lives, vol. V of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1917, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pelopidas*.html#1.1
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By Flickr.com user "avlxyz" - flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/251096956/, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1214023
By O H 237 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62480935
By Generic Mapping Tools - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=656066
By Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany - Hapalos Artos (soft bread), a traditional Ancient Roman recipe for a classic fine bread, from Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38328972
By Nikias Painter - Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), 2008-05-02, CC BY 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4051642
By Heinz-Josef Lücking, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33120207
By Robin Iversen Rönnlund - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22360265
By Harrieta171 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=588884
By Schwarzsauer.JPG: Overbergderivative work: An-d (talk) - This file was derived from: Schwarzsauer.JPG:, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18532091
By Overberg - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17394953
By Miyagawa - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44471027
By © Alice Wiegand / CC-BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37184669
By Map_Macedonia_336_BC-es.svg: Marsyas (French original); Kordas (Spanish translation)derivative work: MinisterForBadTimes (talk) - Translation of Map_Macedonia_336_BC-es.svg (data from R. Ginouvès and al., La Macédoine, Paris, 1992), CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7398609
By Naotake Murayama - flickr.com/photos/naotakem/7806495198/, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118458583
By Claus Ableiter - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4717961
By Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany - Two Garum amphora reproductions bought at the Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37878421
By ulrichstill - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1146291
By Retro Lenses - Own work, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89091710
By Antti Vähä-Sipilä - Own work, CC BY-SA 1.0 fi, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3331207
In this video, we take a look at the food that was eaten by the Ancient Greeks from the age of Homer to the age of Alexander.
Find us here too!
Patreon: Patreon.com/Fireoflearning
Lucinox – Our Science Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCM2dfLR3BR0CHuePEDtxAZw
The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Download available at incompetech.com
Heavy Heart
Temple of the Manes
Teller of the Tales
Sources
[1] Dalby, Andrew and Sarah Granger. "The Classical Cookbook." The British Museum Press, 2012.
[2] Flint-Hamilton, Kimberly B. “Legumes in Ancient Greece and Rome: Food, Medicine, or Poison?” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, vol. 68, no. 3, 1999, pp. 371–85. JSTOR, doi.org/10.2307/148493.
jstor.org/stable/148493
[3] "Ancient Greek Cuisine." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_cuisine
[4] Gannon, Megan. "Ancient Greeks Used Portable Grills at Their Picnics." Livescience.com, 8 Jan. 2014 livescience.com/42414-ancient-cooking-mycenaeans-portable-grills.html
[5] Plutarch. "The Life of Pelopidas." The Parallel Lives, vol. V of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1917, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pelopidas*.html#1.1
Picture Attributions
By Flickr.com user "avlxyz" - flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/251096956/, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1214023
By O H 237 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62480935
By Generic Mapping Tools - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=656066
By Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany - Hapalos Artos (soft bread), a traditional Ancient Roman recipe for a classic fine bread, from Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38328972
By Nikias Painter - Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), 2008-05-02, CC BY 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4051642
By Heinz-Josef Lücking, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33120207
By Robin Iversen Rönnlund - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22360265
By Harrieta171 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=588884
By Schwarzsauer.JPG: Overbergderivative work: An-d (talk) - This file was derived from: Schwarzsauer.JPG:, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18532091
By Overberg - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17394953
By Miyagawa - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44471027
By © Alice Wiegand / CC-BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37184669
By Map_Macedonia_336_BC-es.svg: Marsyas (French original); Kordas (Spanish translation)derivative work: MinisterForBadTimes (talk) - Translation of Map_Macedonia_336_BC-es.svg (data from R. Ginouvès and al., La Macédoine, Paris, 1992), CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7398609
By Naotake Murayama - flickr.com/photos/naotakem/7806495198/, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118458583
By Claus Ableiter - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4717961
By Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany - Two Garum amphora reproductions bought at the Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37878421
By ulrichstill - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1146291
By Retro Lenses - Own work, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89091710
By Antti Vähä-Sipilä - Own work, CC BY-SA 1.0 fi, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3331207
