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Last supper in Pompeii
The Romans’ passion for fine dining is well known – now a mouth-watering new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum shows how the production, distribution and consumption for food and wine coloured every aspect of Roman life, as its curator Paul Roberts explains
Bon viveurs interested in Roman culture are blessed by the large amount of evidence from Roman writers, who seem to have been particularly interested in food and drink – and all that this involved. Now, in Last Supper in Pompeii, a delicious exhibition about to open at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, new archaeological research on the subject, both from Italy and Britain, is presented, much of it for the first time in a public forum.
To shed light on this fundamental area, the exhibition has drawn heavily on finds from the Roman sites of Pompeii and Oplontis – both buried by Mount Vesuvius in the catastrophic eruption of AD 79. Scholars have rightly pointed out that Pompeii is not, in
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