Food—A Cultural Culinary History Podcast – The Great Courses Daily

Food—A Cultural Culinary History Podcast – The Great Courses Daily


Classical Greece—Wine, Olive Oil, and Trade

October 02, 2017

In this episode, we’ll discover how the ancient Greeks’ need for arable land led to their imperial and mercantile system, and we’ll consider what we learn about their food culture from such sources as Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, and Plato. [...]