Dinner in the Triclinium (Cena Romana)
Romans commonly named three meals: ientaculum, prandium, and cena. Dinner was the chief meal and could be eaten reclining in a triclinium, with handwashing, bread, fruit, vegetables, wine, knives, spoons, and napkins.
Grades 3–8. Places and stories.
How it connects
Modern table customs still show that meals are moral habits as well as food: hospitality, gratitude, moderation, and fellowship matter more than display.
Latin words that go with this card: cena, cibus, mensa, panis, vinum.