Who are these women? Women who grind, singing the monotonous strain: ‘alei, myla, alei… grind, mill, grind even Pittacus ground great Mytilene’s king…” (1) Who are these women who knead… Tanagra, 500-475 a. C. National Archaeological Museum of Athens, n°27…
THE ORCHARD OF ALCINOOUS”
“Ulysses at the court of Alcinous”, Hayez Fr. (1813-5) ” But without the courtyard, hard by the door, is a great orchard of four acres, and a hedge runs about it on either side. Therein grow trees, tall and luxuriant, pears…
Carnival
The three weeks of Carnival are the last weeks before the great Easter Fast and also a festival of masked balls, songs, rivers of wine and plenty of food. Like its predecessors, Greek Athenian Anthesteria and Roman Saturnalia, Greek Carnival…
About cheese 2.
Products such as cheese were discovered accidentally. Primitive forms of cheese have been made since the earliest domestication of animals and became a great way to preserve milk. Homer gives the first description, although brief, of cheese. In the Odyssey…
Eating lupines
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lupinus_albus.JPG “For our best and daintiest cheer, Through the bright half of the year, Is but acorns, onions, peas, Ochros lupines, radishes, Yetches, wild pears nine or ten, With a locust now and then.’’ Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists,…