Ancient Foods Today!

Prometheus was punished by Zeus by being chained up and having an eagle come and eat his liver every day. See, cause he was immortal the liv...

In Hesiod's Works and Days , written somewhere around 700-650 BC, Hesiod tells how to take a good break in the middle of a hot day (line...

Shopping in Reading Terminal Market, I found wild boar! Lets cook it following a recipe from the wild and wonderful cookbook of that ancient...

Merry Christmas everybody! I have some very important words of wisdom to pass on this Christmas morning. Many of you will be cooking a goose...

So, today I spoke with fellow graduate student Matt Farmer, who is wise and whose Greek is really, really good. He pointed out that the word...

So, today we look at that witty writer of the Second Sophistic, Lucian, and his moon men! Well, he talks about a whole bunch of different ra...

Today we look at some ancient Roman soldiers' food as described by the historian Livy. In book 44. 35 of his history of Rome, Livy descr...