Food: Tradition and change in Hellenistic Egypt

Abstract

Given the predictable climate and annual flood of the Nile, a rich and varied diet was always available in Egypt, both from cultivated crops and the wild flora and fauna of the country. Evidence for diet in the Pharaonic period tends to an upper‐class bias, being mainly funerary in nature. With the arrival of the Ptolemies and their Greek bureaucracy, documentary evidence adds to the picture. New crops, especially new strains of wheat, were introduced for the changing urban markets; they met with some native resistance. Records of corn allowances permit a detailed consideration of some workers’ diets. In this respect the temples remained centres of conservatism and privilege.

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