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What is Care for What We Eat about?

Abstract Poisoning was not easy. Like so much else, from putting on a toga in the morning to preparing for bed, it required trusted staff, some four or five slaves for the toga alone. Few could ever be trusted enough. It was never certain that Augustus’s wife, Livia, was a poisoner. She had a luxurious garden of rare herbs and a decorated dining room which reminded her guests of her opportunities to poison them as they ate. Food was part of an individual’s character and the character of a whole people. A tongue was for talking and for eating. In street language, poetry and the farces of the stage, it was for sex. The Latin tongue was as special for the Romans as their land. The flatterer and the glutton, the names already beginning their life on the Palatine, were extremes of the same use of the lingua Latina.

Author

Peter Stothard

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197555293

Subjects

History, Humanities