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The Sensational Experience of the Slave at a Dinner Party
The sensory experience of slaves could vary significantly depending on the role that you had. And we get this from our literary evidence, where we get a pliny telling us of stories that he's heard of individuals being fed ropy food while others are eating glorious concoctions. We've got another really good example o a similar freedman dinner party, written by petronius, who was a a writer under the reign of the emperor nero.
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