Archestratos of Gela
Archestratos ( Greek Ἀρχέστρατος Archestratos ) was a poet from Gela or Syracuse in Sicily and a contemporary of Aristotle and Diodoros of Aspendos , and therefore worked around the middle of the 4th century BC.
Aftermath
He is remembered for his didactic poem Hedypatheia ( Ἡδυπάθεια , “Living in luxury”), the subject of which is a gastronomic trip around the world. Sometimes also called the "Gastronomy of Archestratos", it contained information on various gastronomic rules and described all sorts of accessories that can be counted as decoration on a festive table. He devoted himself extensively to the fish, for example the question of where the individual species come from, the best times of their catch and the tastiest preparation of their best parts. According to Archestratos, the best wine on the island of Lesbos is said to have been made at that time .
Today the partly parodic poem is considered to be one of the oldest surviving examples of gastronomic texts. It is preserved in more than sixty fragments with a total of about 330 verses, which Athenaios quoted in his work Deipnosophistai . Athenaios relied primarily on the material collected for Archestratos by the lexicographer Pamphilos of Alexandria from the 1st century AD. The Roman writer Quintus Ennius used in the 3rd century BC Archestratos extensively for his poem Hedyphagetica.
expenditure
- Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider : Aristotelis De animalibus historiae libri X. Graece et Latine. Textum recensuit Iul. Caes. Scaligeri versionem diligenter recognovit commentarium amplissimum indicesque locupletissimos adiecit Io. Thank God Schneider. Volume I, pages 42 ff., Leipzig 1811
- Woldemar Ribbeck : Archestrati Syracusii Sive Gelensis Quae Feruntur Apud Athenaeum Reliquiae . Gustav Langenscheidt, Berlin 1877; New edition at Verlag Kessinger Publishing, 2009 ISBN 978-1-104-01080-5
- Paul Brandt : Parodorum epicorum Graecorum et Archestrati reliquiae (= Corpusculum poesis epicae Graecae ludibundae, Volume 1) . Teubner, Leipzig 1888, pp. 114–193
literature
- Walther Sontheimer : Archestratos 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 504.
- Andrew Dalby: Archestratos: where and when? In: John Wilkins et al. (Ed.): Food in antiquity. Exeter University Press, Exeter 1995, pp. 400-412.
- S. Douglas Olson, Alexander Sens: Archestratos of Gela: Greek Culture and Cuisine in the Fourth Century BCE . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000 (text with English translation and commentary)
- Max Wellmann : Archestratos 16 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 459 f.
- John Wilkins, Shaun Hill: Archestratus: The life of luxury. Prospect Books, Totnes 2011 (text with English translation, commentary and English introduction as PDF online )
Web links
- Archestratus at Cooksinfo.com, accessed October 7, 2015
- Kathryn Koromilas: Feasting with Archestratus in Odyssey, November / December 2007
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Archestratos of Gela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Archestratos; Ἀρχέστρατος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gela or Syracuse |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |