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Prassaea (Green)

Cabbage, garden racket, celery, asparagus, eggs with pine kernels, nuts, vegetable bulbs, raisins and pomegranate.

I say Goodbye to the dishes full with bulbs and vegetables and with many delicacies Iraklides from Taras in “Symposium” states: “The bulb, the snail, the egg and alike seem to produce sperm not only because they are polytrophic but because their primary nature is similar to the sperm.”


Thalassaea (Sea Food)

Spinach, fresh onions, caper, octopus tentacles with shrimps, mussels and squid.

Alexis in Kratia told him: “First with shellfish, octopus, shrimps because these are a prelude to a special cooked dinner.

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Kyklopaea (Cyclopean)

Garden racket with goat sharp cheese, olive oil and vinegar.

Writings that mention poetic comedies create a very good feeling, hearing to the verses, such as in “Antifanis Akestria”, and to the Cyclop he says: “…and scraping goat cheese on the garden rocket.”
Oraea (Beautiful)

Lettuce, cucumbers, pears and apples with plums, raisins and fragrant spearmint.

Nikandros, the Kolophonios says the following… Lanes of vegetables, mixed with dry nuts.
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Tragassaia (edible)

Poppy seeds, fennel, artichoke, mastic, leek, raddish.

Epiharmos is teaching to include artichokes in the vegetables that are eaten... poppy seeds... fennel, with artichokes are to be eaten with other vegetables, if mixed together and offered they are very delicious.
Archaea (Ancient)

Vegetable pieces with bird game, crayfish, mussels, coliandro, mushrooms, olives and radishes.

Afterwards there were birds and other chopped vegetables, that’s what Aristophanes says in his Dilia, the chopped vegetables, knista or stalks.
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