Talk:Cuisine of Ancient Greece

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An entry from Cuisine of Ancient Greece appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 1 June 2006.

[edit] Translator's notes

• Aristophane's Frogs 1032, cited in the original does not discuss the subject matter the fr: version says it does (the spilling of blood) I have thuis left it out unless/until I can clarify this (possibly an error in page number or something...)
• The fr: version gives a quote by Aelianus (I, 28) which comments on Rhodes inhabitants being great gourmets; when reading the original, all this says is that in Rhodes they prefer fish where others prefer meat, so I have left this out also. Bridesmill 01:35, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Concerning Frogs, 1032 does talk about the spilling of blood: Ὀρφεὺς μὲν γὰρ τελετάς θ' ἡμῖν κατέδειξε φόνων τ' ἀπέχεσθαι ("for Orpheus taught us rites and to refrain from killing"). Jastrow 10:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

My mistake - must have been asleep first time I looked on Perseus...fixed, thanks.Bridesmill 19:14, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wow

What an incredible article! Well done, Bridesmill. WP:FAC? -- ALoan (Talk) 15:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I am but a humble translator (well, ok, I added maybe 2% if that). the Fr wiki Greek history guys deserve the credit on this one (User:Jastrow here seems to be part of that crew)Bridesmill 00:15, 2 June 2006 (UTC) And thanks to all who did very quick & good copyedit....Bridesmill 00:24, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Indeed - well done them too. I was only looking at WP:FAOL the other day, and noticed that, for example, the French versions of Édouard Manet, Sparta, trebuchet and trireme were miles better that ours... -- ALoan (Talk) 11:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I found much of what i needed. Well written. Goldilocks24 19:14, 27 September 2006 (UTC)Goldilocks24