Ciao! Today, we will experience the world of Convivium: the ancient Roman banquets, the dinner parties of the rich, the symposium for eating on a Triclinium, exploring pleasure, and flirting!
WHAT IS A ROMAN CONVIVIUM
When Romans wanted to celebrate a birth, a wedding, a political or military victory, or a public holiday, they hosted or attended a Convivium, the Roman symposium.
These banquets were very different, depending on the historic moment.
REPUBLICAN AND IMPERIAL ROME
In republican Rome, frugality was the dictate: the table was laden with cereals, legumes, farro focaccias, cheese, meat, fish, and wine.
In imperial Rome, around the second-century b.c., after the conquest of innumerable territories, gaining thousands of slaves, and importing basic and exotic goods for the citizens, things changed quite a bit.
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