The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Philosophy
The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Civilization, Greco-Roman; Dinners and dining -- Greece; Greece -- Social life and customs; Homosexuality -- Greece
Then there are μύλλοι. Heraclides the Syracusan, in his
treatise on Laws, says, that in Syracuse, on the principal day of the
Thesmophorian festival, cakes of a peculiar shape are made of sesame
and honey, which are called μύλλοι throughout all Sicily, and
are carried about as offerings to the goddesses. There is also the
echinus. Lynceus the Samian, in his epistle to Diagoras, comparing the
things which are considered dainties in Attica with those which are
in esteem at Rhodes, writes thus: "They have for the second course a
rival to the fame of the ἄμης in a new antagonist called the ἐχινος,
concerning which I will speak briefly; but when you come and see me,
and eat one which shall be prepared for you in the Rhodian manner, then
I will endeavour to say more about it."
There are also cheesecakes named κοτυλίσκοι. Heracleon of
Ephesus tells us that those cheesecakes have this name which are made
of the third part of a chœnix of wheat.
There are others called χοιρίναι, which are mentioned by
Iatrocles in his treatise on Cheesecakes; and he speaks also of that
which is called πυραμοῦς, which he says differs from the
πυραμίς, inasmuch as this latter is made of bruised wheat
which has been softened with honey. And these cheesecakes are in
nightly festivals given as prizes to the man who has kept awake all
night.
57. But Chrysippus of Tyana, in his book called the Art of
Making Bread, enumerates the following species and genera of
cheesecakes:—"The terentinum, the crassianum, the tutianum, the
sabellicum, the clustron, the julianum, the apicianum, the canopicum,
the pelucidum, the cappadocium, the hedybium, the maryptum, the
plicium, the guttatum, the montianum. This last," he says, "you will
soften with sour wine, and if you have a little cheese you may mash
the montianum up half with wine and half with cheese, and so it will
be more palatable. Then there is the clustrum curianum, the clustrum
tuttatum, and the clustrum tabonianum. There are also mustacia made
with mead, mustacia made with sesame, crustum purium, gosgloanium, and
paulianum.
[Sidenote: CHEESECAKES.]
"The following cakes resembling cheesecakes," he says, "are really
made with cheese:—the enchytus, the scriblites, the subityllus. There
is also another kind of subityllus made of groats. Then there is the
spira; this, too, is made with cheese.
There are, too, the lucuntli, the argyrotryphema, the libos, the
cercus, the æxaphas, the clustroplacous. There is also," says
Chrysippus, "a cheesecake made of rye. The phthois is made thus:—Take
some cheese and pound it, then put it into a brazen sieve and strain
it; then put in honey and a hemina[95] of flour made from spring wheat,
and beat the whole together into one mass.
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