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Thermopolium at Via Di Diana, Ostia Antica
Thermopolium at Via Di Diana, Ostia Antica
Themes: Ostia Antica, Ancient Rome, Architecture, and Thermopolium
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“Send your Legate to Ostia, O Caesar, but search for him in some big cookshop! There you will find him, lying cheek-by-jowl beside a cut-throat, in the company of bargees, thieves, and runaway slaves, beside hangmen and coffin-makers, or of some eunuch priest lying drunk with idle timbrels.” Juvenal Satire 8.
In Ostia Antica, there’s a remarkably well preserved thermopolium; literally, “a place where hot is sold.” Colloquially known as popinae, and translated from Juvenal here as a “cookshop”, they offered ready to eat meals to people on the go, or apartment dwellers without home cooking facilities. While some of the best surviving examples can be seen at Pompeii and Herculaneum; this one in Ostia is perhaps the finest I’ve encountered.
Scorned by the wealthy and grumpy satirists alike, who tended to dine at home, thermopolia were vital to everyday Roman lives.
Picture taken Dec 2017 at Ostia Antica. Excerpt From Delphi Complete Works of Juvenal
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