Painting by the French painter Nicolas Lancre “Feast on nature”. The size of the painting is 54 x 46 cm, oil on canvas. The feasts and feasts of the ancient Greeks and Romans are described in many writings on the history of antiquity and in various historical novels, the feast of the Germans – for example, in The History of German Civilization, Sherr, and the Russian feast – in Kostomarov’s work on the Life of Great Russian People.
In some countries they sat at dinners and feasts, sat in others; in some places it was customary to be silent in silence, in others during the feast conversation was obligatory; in antiquity, as in the new time, during ceremonial feasts in the usual was the performance of music. The composition and distribution of meals on meals also have their own long history. There are many beliefs and customs associated with feasts and caused in part by the ancient convergence of the ordinary table with the altar.