Mediterranean hospitality and diet

Jupiter and Mercury enjoy Mediterranean hospitality and diet courtesy of Baucis and Philemon of Phrygia. Baucis serves:

Ovid, from Book VIII of Metamorphoses, trans. Mary M. Innes (1955).

The food that’s piping hot: smoked bacon. It’s ”a small piece of their long-cherished meat,” not a staple of their diet.

The Fall of Icarus, with excerpts from Books VIII and IX, is no. 73 in the Penguin Little Black Classics series (2015).