Название: Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine
Автор: Caroline Cheung
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069124300X
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 345
Размер: 84,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
The story of the Roman Empire’s enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possible. The average resident of ancient Rome drank two-hundred-and-fifty liters of wine a year, almost a bottle a day, and the total annual volume of wine consumed in the imperial capital would have overflowed the Pantheon.