{"id":110252,"date":"2022-08-25T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T06:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=110252"},"modified":"2022-08-25T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T06:51:11","slug":"romans-ate-while-reclining","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/romans-ate-while-reclining\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans ate while reclining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/social-layers-of-ancient-rome\/patricians\/\">patricians<\/a> ate in <b>reclining positions<\/b>, settling on sofas. The sofas encircled the main table on three sides, with <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/eating-habits-of-romans\/\">food<\/a> and drink delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/social-layers-of-ancient-rome\/slavery-in-ancient-rome\/\">slaves<\/a> to individual guests. The name of the Roman dining room &#8211; <em>triclinium<\/em> &#8211; comes from three beds (Greek: <em>treis kline<\/em>). <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Placing specific people on individual sofas was related to their social status or the host&#8217;s desire to distinguish them. According to the old custom &#8211; the invited guest &#8211; could be accompanied by two uninvited, called &#8220;shadows&#8221; (<em>umbrae<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>It is said that Roman women originally ate sitting down. Then this custom &#8211; at least in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/richest-men-and-wages-in-ancient-rome\/\">rich<\/a> houses &#8211; went out of fashion and women began to eat reclining too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39598,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[85],"class_list":["post-110252","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-food"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/110252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/110252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=110252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}