{"id":155743,"date":"2025-05-01T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=155743"},"modified":"2025-05-01T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:30:20","slug":"myth-romans-always-ate-lying-down-during-feasts","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/myth-romans-always-ate-lying-down-during-feasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth: Romans always ate lying down during feasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common image of social life in ancient Rome is of patricians reclining on their sides in the <em>triclinium <\/em>(dining room), wine and food during long feasts. The popular imagination is that all Romans ate this way\u2014rich and poor alike, on every occasion. But this is a myth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In ancient homes, people did indeed eat during feasts (<em>convivium<\/em>) lying down, but this was reserved exclusively for the elite. Descriptions of such feasts can be found, among others, in Pliny the Younger and Petronius (e.g. in the Satyricon).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, in Roman homes, apart from exclusive houses, there is a predominant lack of <em>triclinium<\/em> \u2013 most middle and lower class homes did not have the appropriate space or equipment for this form of eating meals. Studies of houses in Pompeii show that the so-called &#8220;dining rooms&#8221; were often small and adapted rather for a sedentary meal.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, preserved Roman mosaics and frescoes, e.g. from Pompeii and Herculaneum, show mixed scenes: people feasting lying down, but also people sitting at tables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":87595,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[117],"class_list":["post-155743","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/155743","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\/155743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=155743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}