Another aspect of The Iliad that has intrigued me are the many feasts and ritual sacrifices of various animals in Homer’s great epic, so I did a little scholarly digging, and it turns out a lot of ink has been spilled on this topic. Below is a just small sample of this fascinating literature in alphabetical order, by author:
1. Daisy Dunn, “Food of the Gods“, Idler Magazine (2006).
2. Tamara Neal, “Blood and Hunger in the Iliad“, Classical Philology, Vol. 101, No. 1 (2006), pp. 15-33.
3. Erik Robinson, “The Homeric Diet – ‘Equal Meals’“, Sententiae Antiquae (2019).
4. Susan Sherratt, “Feasting in Homeric Epic“, Hesperia, Vol. 73 (2004), pp. 301-317.
5. Valerie Stiver, “Grilling with Homer“, The Paris Review (2018).
6. Marek Wecowski, “Homer, the ‘Heroic Feast’, and the Symposion“, Chapter 4 in The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet (2014), pp. 191-248.
7. Erin Welty, “Emblematic Eating: Reading the Feasts of the Iliad as Models for Emblematic Eating: Reading the Feasts of the Iliad as Models for Social Order“, University of South Carolina, Senior Thesis (2018).
Bonus link: Wikipedia, Ancient Greek Cuisine.
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