BORN ROMAN BETWEEN A BEET AND A CABBAGE

Caroline Cheung

doi:10.1353/ajp.2021.0021

BORN ROMAN BETWEEN A BEET AND A CABBAGE

Caroline Cheung

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A graffito (CIL 4.4533) from a Pompeian carpentry workshop (VI.14.37) describes a knight as born Roman between a beet and a cabbage. This paper explores the graffito's possible meanings by reviewing the ways these vegetables have been featured in discourse regarding agriculture, dining, parties, and metaphors or characters and posits that they were initially featured in a positive light. In later discussions, however, these humble vegetables not only signified poverty, but also the deterioration of traditional Roman values. The paper then considers the graffito's significance in the context of a carpentry workshop in a town under the Roman Empire.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	659-697
Number of pages	39
Journal	American Journal of Philology
Volume	142
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2021.0021
State	Published - Dec 2021

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Cultural Studies
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory

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