History of Greek Food

Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos (1826-1909)
 

Is Aphrodite’s raised sandal a tease or is she intending to slap the goat-legged Pan with it, because she is not interested in an erotic adventure with him?

 100 BC.  National Archaeological Museum of Athens.*
 
Beautifully decorated sandals were traditionally included in bride’s gifts. For jewelry, perfumes and sandals  provided her with the tools to maintain her beauty of the night of her marriage.

Greek red-figure amphora with Hippodameia preparing [...]

“In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of al the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels [...]

 
Behind this fish -soup there is a long history of fear and courage.
Because, in the ancient thought the sea was a hostile, lonely world with sea monsters and fishes which were  frightening to humans….  the only animal eaten in eastern Mediterranean that could eat people. Dolphins were an exception of course.

Scylla. Apulian vase. 4th cent. BC
Such negative feeling had [...]

Theodoros Papagiannis : Tribute to the bread. Installation (clay & metal). 1998