Athena at the table

The Greek meal is not divided into starter-main-dessert. It revolves around sitos — the staple grain (barley cake, bread) that forms the bulk — accompanied by opson, what "elevates" the bite (olives, cheese, sacrificial meat, fish). Then comes the symposion, the drinking moment where a libation is first poured to the gods before sharing wine mixed with water. For a goddess like Athena, the mortal table is doubled by an offering table: ritual cakes and burnt portions rise to Olympus.