We don’t have much evidence from antiquity about how the everyday ancients actually cooked. There is quite a lot of food in the literature, ranging from the heroic to the ridiculous. When, in Virgil’s epic Latin poem the Aeneid, the hero Aeneas shoots seven stags to feed his men, they polish them off immediately. No hanging is necessary. The men flay the hides and chop up the carcasses. Some eat an early form of venison kebab. Others simply boil it.
Similarly, the heroes of Homer’s Greek poem the Iliad subsist on cattle they’ve raided from local towns. They do this despite being camped right next to the sea and a river. Perhaps they thought fishing was beneath them. They also season their wine with onions. An excellent pick-me-up before a day’s hunting and besieging. I dare you to try it next time you’re in the field. There’s room for homeliness, too: when Odysseus returns, after his long voyage, back home, we find a housekeeper putting out bread and olives.
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