{"id":2521,"date":"2009-11-22T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2009-11-22T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T20:10:54","slug":"triclinium-roman-dining-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/triclinium-roman-dining-tables\/","title":{"rendered":"Triclinium Roman dining tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2524\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2524\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/triclinium-roman-dining-tables\/100_3134\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2524\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2524\" title=\"Fishbourne_triclinium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/100_3134.jpg\" alt=\"A re-created Triclinium at Fishbourne Roman Garden\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/100_3134.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/100_3134-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/100_3134-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/100_3134-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A re-created Triclinium at Fishbourne Roman Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How did they do it? Romans ate on &#8216;three couches&#8217; (a <em>triclinium<\/em>) with a table separating them (see Wiki on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triclinium\">triclinium<\/a>). There is a garden re-creation of a triclinium at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/fishbourne_roman_palace_garden\">Fishbourne Roman Garden<\/a> and one can find some photos on the web of students eating this way. When I first came across the idea, I assumed the couches were only for <a href=\"http:\/\/lg.gest8.com\/uploads\/RTEmagicC_4e9841783f.jpg.jpg\">orgies<\/a>, so that you could eat yourself sick and misbehave at will. But no, a triclinium seems to have been the normal way for wealthy people to eat. I tried arranging the sofa to eat in this way. It was not good for my digestion,\u00a0 drinking was\u00a0 difficult and I did not explore my earlier ideas. The only advantage I discovered was that if one was eating sloppy food without a knife or fork then it was easy to get one&#8217;s mouth vertically above the plate, as one still does for spaghetti.  I remain puzzled, but here are some German students with a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latein-pagina.de\/pics\/studienfahrten\/augst\/triclinium%208ae-05.jpg\"> foodless triclinium<\/a> and here is a painting of a <a href=\"http:\/\/lauracalluria.tripod.com\/images\/banquet2.jpg\">Roman banquet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did they do it? Romans ate on &#8216;three couches&#8217; (a triclinium) with a table separating them (see Wiki on triclinium). There is a garden re-creation of a triclinium at Fishbourne Roman Garden and one can find some photos on the web of students eating this way. When I first came across the idea, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}