Comments by "Dr. Yalex" (@Dr.Yalex.) on "Ancient Roman Honeyed Pork" video.

  1. Hi Max,:face-red-heart-shape: 8:45 "Roman lying-down while eating"... Art historians have often noted that banqueters almost always appear to be reclining on their left sides. The usual explanation is that lying on the left leaves the right hand free to hold the dining vessels. But in funereal art there is good documentation of presumptive left-handed banqueters also reclining to the left. Jean-Marie Dentzer in his book Le motif due banquet couché dans le Proche-Orient et le monde Grec du VIIe au IVe siècle avant J.-C. (Ecole Francais, Rome, 1982) has compiled an extensive inventory of the banquet couché between the seventh and fourth centuries BC. Of the more than 700 illustrations, including at least a dozen banqueters holding pots in their left hand, not one is lying on their right side. more here (nature.com/articles/448753a) 10:20 "...If you asked for Hen's Milk, you would get it"... (absolutely anything desired which exists or not) another version is Bird's Milk, :person-turqouise-waving:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptasie_mleczko
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