Roman drunkard found on Danish island

Videnskab.dk via Science Nordic ^ | January 14, 2015 | Peter Pentz, translated by Hugh Matthews

[SunkenCiv]

The practice seems to have come from the Etruscans (although the Etruscan men ate in the same room at the same time as their wives, unlike the Republic-era Romans and the Greeks). Boogieman’s suggestion that it started centuries earlier among nomadic ancestors looks pretty plausible to me.

[Bigg Red]

I would lose a lot of weight because I would have more food on me than in me.

Do you suppose they could have had some notion that it was more helpful for the digestion to be in such a position?

[SunkenCiv]

It was more convenient to eat in that position while getting serviced by courtesans.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[dsc]

“Most people don’t even know that Nero engaged the Ancient Ethiopians”

Most people don’t know that Ethiopia was Christian long before most of Europe.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Everybody knows that!