Forsyth, Mark. A Short History of Drunkenness. Viking, 2017. ISBN9780241980101. Supplied185-page PDF.
The banquet is presented as a hierarchy expressed through seating, wine quality, vessels and enslaved service.
Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (Viking, 2017), chap. 8, “The Roman Convivium”.
Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (Viking, 2017), chap. 8, “The Roman Convivium”.
chap. 8, “The Roman Convivium”
Forsyth, Short History of Drunkenness, chap. 8, “The Roman Convivium”.
chap. 8, “The Roman Convivium”
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Satire and moral criticism bias this reconstruction; do not universalize it. The diagram on PDF70 is an explanatory seating sketch, not archaeological measurement.
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