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From The Inns of Greece & Rome, and a history of Hospitality from the Dawn of Time to the Middle Ages, by W. C. Firebaugh, with an Introduction by Wallace Rice and Illustrations by Norman Lindsay, Chicago: Pascal Covici; 1928; pp. 273-275.
THE INNS OF GREECE AND ROME
[273]Annius slays Marcus Antonius, 200
Appian Way and its lodging houses, 117
Arcadian merchant and his fate, an, 126
Aristophanes, 50, 58, 61, 73, 84
Assyrian and Babylonian inns, 18
Assyrian and Chaldaean wines, 20
Athenaeus’s specific for over-indulgence, 10
Aurelian assassinated in a pot-house, 110
Babylonians against woman selling wine, 19
Baths, splendor and wickedness of, 165
Beds of the inns and taverns, 121
Brigandage and thievery center around inns and taverns, 127
Cabarets and low dives of Athens, 69
Cabarets and resorts of Canopus, 11
Caesar Germanicus drives out food hawkers, 236
Caligula perfumes his body, 166
Cato and his sumptuary laws, 172, 229
traffics in wines, 238
Claudius, patron of the vilest inns, 104
Clodius murdered at an inn, 154
College boys of the dark ages, 10
Commodus, the incarnation of evil, 181
Cooks and caterers, insolence of, 222
Corinth, city of new pleasures, 82
Dance, graphically descrbed, a, 148
Demosthenes, 67, 91
Dining-rooms connected with the baths, 68
Domitian and the liquor situation, 135
Eustathius, 32, 52
Food displays in restaurants, 205
Gallus and his love for Blanche the dancing girl, 150
Greece establishes military roads and hostelries, 52
Greek inns of the fifth century before Christ, 53
Greek tavern-keepers tricky, 72
Greek taverns first mentioned by Homer, 31
Greek restaurants, 79, were interdicted, 238
Guttlers and their orgies, 133
Hebrew conception of hospitality, 22
Heliogabalus, most dissolute of all emperors, 181
Herodotus credits Lydians with first inns and taverns, 27
Horace derides the tavern-keeper, 189
Horace and his rustic Hebes, 121
Inn life in ancient Greece, 63
Inns and taverns of ancient times, 127
Inns and taverns of the better class, 118
Inns, terms used to describe various kinds of, 119, 130
Juvenal describes Roman tavern, 194
Juvenal describes Egyptian banquet, 15
Kitchens, descriptions of, 208
Martial frequenter of the taverns, 184, 226
Menelaus entertains Telemachus, earliest and finest example of hospitality, 31, 37
Nero compels Roman women to frequent and solicit in the public houses, 133
Nero and his debaucheries, 179
Nero sings in low cabarets, 189
Orgies of Memphis and Alexandreia, 14
Otho, noted for his dissipation, 104
Ovid advises lovers to meet at baths, 167
Pausanias describes two famous club rooms, 33
Philostratus sings praises of cabaret girl, 186
Plautus, 42, 104, 130, 152, 196, 237
Plutarch on Greek inns, 64, 85, 237
Polybius describes inns on great roads of Italy, 116
Polygnotus,, famous paintings of, 33
Post-houses on Roman roads, 108
Propertius abandons himself to drunkenness, 192
Public houses subject to espionage, 109
Rameses II. Egyptian life under, 7
Rameses III. and royal brewery, 11
Religious feasts and festivals, 211
Roman circus and its bloody games, 103
Romans of better class and taverns, 99
Rome in decay and low pot-houses, 111
Severus murdered in Tres Tabernae, 157
Socrates derides public houses, 58
Spiced wines and sweetened liquors, 211, 213
St. Paul at Tres Tabernae, 156
Stratonice, the flute girl, 45
Syrians, their vile professions, 137
Tavern signs, 59, 157, girls absolved from penalties, 139
Taverns with trap-doors, 164
;frequented by literati, 184
and wealthy classes, 125
and social life of Italy, 98
of Egypt, 11
Telemachus, 30, 37, 39
Theophrastus, 44, 57, 64, 70
Thermopolia, hot water drinks emporiums, 85
Theodosius purges Rome of thieves and harlots, 164
Thucydides describes inns of Greece, 46
Tiberius squelches tavern brawls, 178
Tokens of hospitality in use, 42
Tokens, origin of the checking system, 42
Trimalchio speculates in wine, 199
Vitellius dissipates in low dives, 104
Wine cellars and kitchens, 107
Wine, inspectors, 77
making, 11, 235
smuggling, 231,
varieties of, 6, 234,
of the Ptolemies, source of great wealth, 10
vintages, 235
Wines and beers, different effects of, 7
immense quantities consumed of, 6, 234
methods of preserving, 5,
perfumed and spiced, 234
of Ethiopia, 6
of Libya, detestable, 12
of Sorrentum, 234
Xenophon encourages hospitality in Athens, 49
Xerxes’ edict against Babylonians, 76
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