Mark Antony (Richard Burton) and Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) watch the feast in CLEOPATRA (1963)
Though not as unbridled as the orgies I listed yesterday this feast is definitely one of the most over-the-top feasts. I've always had issues with this gargantuan feast thinking it's sorta improbable since it takes place on a ship.
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The barge seems much more lavish inside than viewed from the river as it passes by ..... there's also Cleo's lavish sleeping quarters downstairs.
I always thought that Greeks and Romans ate reclining, not sitting upright ? Ptolemaic banquets were the stuff of legend, and Cleo is said to have given her guests the golden, jewel-encrusted serviceware (plates, goblets, etc.) they ate from. The floors would be strewn with rose petals, etc.
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