What’s for dinner today? Remarks on the provisions and diet of Roman soldiers during the Principate

• Authors: Agnieszka Tomas

Abstracts

EN

Many ancient writers have written about feeding the Roman army, including Vegetius, Appian, Cassius Dio, Tacitus and Suetonius. Archaeological sources provide interesting data about army provisioning, food supply, the soldier's diet, but also the consequences of eating certain types of foods. Analyzing the remains of consumption and waste, we can reconstruct the diet of soldiers in various corners of the empire and look at their everyday life "from the kitchen". This contribution is an attempt at an introduction on the nature of literary and archaeological sources concerning the food supply and diet of soldiers stationed in several selected places in the empire.

Keywords

PL

armia rzymska; logistyka; zaopatrzenie; rzymska dieta wojskowa

EN

Roman army; logistics; provisioning; Roman military diet

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Wrocławski. Wydział Nauk Historycznych i Pedagogicznych. Instytut Historyczny
• Journal: Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 128-154

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Tomas

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

• https://orcid.org/0000000195788221

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34616/samai.2020.5.128.154

Biblioteka Nauki

28409319