Guided tour

Arria Perreault guides you through the exhibit “Nunc est bibendum”
in french

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NUNC EST BIBENDUM – POPEA HERON

Avete omnes,
Passionnée d’histoire et de la Rome antique, SL a été un excellent outil pour approfondir mes connaissances et vivre une expérience unique, dans un univers virtuel.
Le merveilleux sim ROMA SPQR, me donne la possibilité de vivre dans la rome antique et avec un des meilleurs bâtisseur de Second Life, Lef Leven, nous avons construit une domus, [...]

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MARCUS GAVIUS APICIUS

MARCUS GAVIUS APICIUS
Marcus Gavius Apicius (b. 25 BC) is known as a culinary expert and he provided us with information on ancient Roman cuisine.
Apicius was considered to be a strange character who enjoyed “high society” and “living well”.
Known for his sauces and extravagant dishes, he served oddities such as flamingo and nightingale tongues, camel heels, [...]

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WINE – LE VIN

WINE AND ROME
In Italy, grape vines were cultivated both in the north by the Etruscans and in the south by Greek colonists. Wine growing was less important to the Romans, who, in the early years of the Republic, were fighting to expand their domination of the peninsula.
By the middle of the second century BC, however, [...]

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ROMAN FOOD – L’ALIMENTATION ROMAINE

ROMANS AND FOOD
In ancient Rome, food preservation was of practical significance in everyday life. It was necessary to preserve excess food which was not to be used immediately in order to store it for future use.
In the Roman Empire, various methods were utilized in the preservation of food. Smoking, drying, and salting.
Salt:
The use of salt [...]

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BAKERY IN POMPEI – BOULANGERIE A POMPEI

MODESTUM’S BAKERY IN POMPEI
Among the best preserved finds of Pompeii, Modestum’s Bakery was preserved so well that 81 carbonised loaves of bread were found. along with it’s equipment.
The millstones consisting of two parts made from volcanic rock fit into each other (meta and catillus), benches for preparing dough and of course the oven.
The millstones would [...]

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CEREALS AND BREAD – CEREALES ET PAIN

Grains
The Romans saw grain as an essential. They preferred vegetables to grain, but grain was something that could be stored against famine.
Having grain meant that people weren’t reduced to combing the woods for acorns and chestnuts, something that would have been seen as barbaric and beneath the dignity of a Roman citizen, however lowly or [...]

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OLIVE OIL – HUILE D’OLIVE

OLIVE OIL
Olive oil was an extremely valuable commodity in ancient Rome. It has been estimated that “adult citizens going to public gymnasiums used as much as 55 liters (14.3 gallons) of olive oil annually for personal hygiene, for consumption, as a lubricant, for lighting, for rituals and as a medicament”. Roman citizens used so much [...]

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SATURNALIA – LES SATURNALES

SATURNALIA
Except during Saturnalia, in which the social roles were switched, the rich Romans used to have attentive and servile employees
Saturnalia is the feast with which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn, which was on 17 December. Over the years, it expanded to a whole week, to 23 December.
Saturnalia became [...]

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THE FEAST OF TRIMALCHIO – LE BANQUET DE TRIMALCION

THE FEAST OF TRIMALCHIO
Excerpts from “Satyricon,” an ancient novel by Petronius
Beverage
I had a mind to try whether all the house servants were singers and accordingly asked for a drink of wine.
Instantly an attendant was at my side, pouring out the liquor to the accompaniment of the same sort of shrill recitative.  Demand what you would, [...]

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