. The life of the Greeks and Romans. es of merriment. We mentioned before(§ 33) that the chief difference between the customs at the•meals of earlier and later periods consisted in the former beingtaken in a sitting, the latter in a reclining position {kcutclkKigis).The Kylix of Sosias, in the Berlin ^Museum, where the godsappear at their meal sitting on thrones in couples, may serve toillustrate the older Homeric custom. Only the Kretans pre-served this old custom up to a later period. Almost all the laterrepresentations show the men lying at their meals ; women andchildren, on the contrary,
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. es of merriment. We mentioned before(§ 33) that the chief difference between the customs at the•meals of earlier and later periods consisted in the former beingtaken in a sitting, the latter in a reclining position {kcutclkKigis).The Kylix of Sosias, in the Berlin ^Museum, where the godsappear at their meal sitting on thrones in couples, may serve toillustrate the older Homeric custom. Only the Kretans pre-served this old custom up to a later period. Almost all the laterrepresentations show the men lying at their meals ; women andchildren, on the contrary, appear in an upright posture, theformer sitting mostly on the further end of the kline at thefeet of their husbands, or on separate chairs.* The sons werenot allowed to recline till they came of age ; in Makedonia nottill they had killed a boar. The women we occasionallysee in pictures (mostly of later date) are probably hetairai * Compare the specimens collected by TVelcker, Alte Denkmaler, vol. ii. p. 242et seq. GREEK FARE. 265. Fiff. 301. (see Fig. 304). This, however, is different in Etruscan repre-sentations, where a man and a woman are seen reclining on oneand the same kline. Aristotle says expressly that men and theirwives used amongst theEtruscans to lie down totheir meals under one andthe same coverlid. ^ InGreece, also, a kline wasgenerally occupied by nomore than two people. shows two couches with an older and a younger man reclining on each of them, talking toeach other in a lively manner. A cup-bearer is about to replenishtheir emptied goblets. Where three or four persons are seenon the same kline (see Fig. 304), we may suspect the introductionof a Roman custom into Greece^ The gorgeous arrangement and more refined cookery of themeals of latter days widely differed from the frugality ofHomeric times. r Pieces of beef, mutton, goat meat, or pork,roasted on the spit, were placed by the maid-servants on littletables in front of the guests (see § 33) ; the
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