Lecturer:  Paul Roberts.  

This lecture describes the Roman love affair with food and wine from fields and vineyards, to markets and shops, from tables to toilets and the tomb, to the bustling city, and the grand home. 

Dr Paul Roberts OBE is Research Keeper in the Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford University and has been a lecturer with the Arts Society/NADFAS for over twenty years. His research focuses on the daily life of ordinary people in the Greek and Roman times.