Archimedes at the table

The ancient Greek meal revolves around sitos, the cereal staple (wheat bread or barley maza flatbread), accompanied by opson, the "what-goes-with-it": olives, cheese, vegetables, or, for wealthy Syracusans, fish. The main evening meal, deipnon, is followed by the symposion, a time for wine mixed with water and nibbling on honey-and-sesame sweets (tragemata). In Syracuse, renowned for having one of the finest tables in the Greek world, fish opson was an art in itself.