{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/67295cac5b575bc851e1edef?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Heart of A City: Food Markets in Ancient Greco-Roman Egypt","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/1730763918015-76799f21-1a05-4206-8f0e-2676e77b2ec9.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Hellenistic Egypt: A land of opportunity. A rich, ancient, fertile land where anything is possible.</p><p><br></p><p>Hello! Welcome back to another episode of The Delicious Legacy</p><p><br></p><p>Bustling and busy cities with their markets and food stalls, and sellers hollering theirs goods isn't a new phenomenon exclusive to our metropolis of New York or London. These markets and people existed as long as cities existed!</p><p>But how these markets were organised in the ancient Mediterranean? What did they sell? How did they smell, who could trade and where in the city were they?</p><p>Well let's find out on the latest episode where we explore a particular market of a town that we have so much information -found quite literally in the rubbish- written by her own inhabitants, at the time they were alive!</p><p>I'm talking of course of the City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish, or as we know it , 'Oxyrhynchos', and the episode today is based on the book of Peter Parsons.</p><p>Enjoy!</p>","author_name":"The Delicious Legacy"}