Food Medicine Flashcards
1
Q
Mediterranean triad
A
- Wheat, olives, grapes
- Sometimes barley instead of wheat
- Can intercultivate wheat with grapes or olives
2
Q
Wheat as staple food
A
- Pliny the Elder: Ancestors ate
puls (porridge); now we consume
bread (Natural History 18.83) - Barley will grow in drier regions
than wheat - Shipping food as grain preserves it
3
Q
Amphora
A
large clay vessels for
transporting olive oil, wine, garum
4
Q
Mortarium: Bowl for grinding food
A
- Used extensively in Roman
food preparation - Grits in bottom for grinding
- In Italy-– start in 5th c. BC
- Appears in various regions
after Roman conquest
5
Q
Feeding the city of Rome
A
- City population could be up to
a million people - Import grain from Sicily and
Africa - Egypt (becomes a province in
31 BCE) - Grain and other foodstuffs are
collected as taxes
6
Q
Annona
A
- state system to provide
subsidized grain in Rome - Danger of food shortages
- 123 BCE: Gaius Gracchus
introduces subsidized grain - Male Roman citizens can buy
monthly subsidized grain
7
Q
Where poorer people eat
A
- Bars, bakeries and
take-out - Food from bakeries
- Bars serve wine and
hot food - Recently discovered
snack bar in Pompeii
8
Q
Ways to combat illness and injury
A
- Folk remedies
- Protection from Evil Eye
- Divinities
- Greek medicine
9
Q
Importation of Asklepios
(Aesculapius) to Rome, 293 BCE
A
- Plague
- Consultation of Sibylline books
- Brought a statue of Asklepios from Epidauros (Greece
- Find terracotta votives of body parts in the Tiber
10
Q
Greek medicine
(=Hippocratic medicine)
A
- Referred to as Hippocratic medicine
- Importance of balancing the humours in the body
- Both appreciation and caution about Greek medicine
- Most doctors are foreigners (Greek names)
- We hear about doctors at court, with army
11
Q
Galen of Pergamon,
129 - c. 216 CE
A
- Physician and teacher
- Became physician to Marcus
Aurelius - Many medical writings
- Including about Antonine plague,
started 165 CE - Smallpox?
- Lasted c. 15 years
