Talk:Vomitorium

Pictures
A picture would be nice —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.139.115.211 (talk • contribs) 15:55, 29 September 2007


 * Done. Dyfsunctional 18:36, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

YES get some pics i need it for school project now! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.92.2.37 (talk) 14:50, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

"And hygene. They did give us hygene."
Weren't some of the privies in Roman ruins mistaken for vomitoria? ^^^^^^^^ I'd like to see more citations.

Pittsburgh Poet (talk) 10:38, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

wikiproject:crap articles?
When did it become appropriate to define the slang term and then proceed to use that term for the rest of the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bofum (talk • contribs) 21:24, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

no vomiting here
You donna vomit in Vomitoriums, i knew that sonny Myles325a (talk) 07:18, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Origins of the misconception mistake?
In the "Misinterpretation of the term" section, one of the explanations of the misinterpretation was "According to Cicero, Julius Caesar escaped an assassination attempt because he felt ill after dinner. Instead of going to the latrine, where his assassins were waiting, he went to his bedroom and avoided assassination." I don't see how this explains the misuse as the term is used not a single time.

In the same section another explanation is given: "Other sources[who?] say that Aldous Huxley was the first to use the misinterpretation in his book Antic Hay[6] in 1923, in the sentence: “There strode in, like a Goth into the elegant marble vomitorium of Petronius Arbiter, a haggard and dishevelled person”." In here the use of vomitorium does not seem incorrect.

Perhaps someone could rephrase in other to better give the intended interpretation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.6.234.57 (talk) 20:25, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

According to the following article, this understanding of the term is not a misconception but an archaeologically-confirmed fact. http://www.science20.com/inside_science/ancient_romans_ate_meals_most_americans_would_recognize-152950? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.13.210 (talk) 03:46, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

The dating of the 4th century appears to be innacurate. According to Brittanica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ambrosius-Theodosius-Macrobius Macrobius reference Vomitorium in the 5th century, not the 4th century. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.105.180.124 (talk) 21:23, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Regarding this article: http://www.science20.com/inside_science/ancient_romans_ate_meals_most_americans_would_recognize-152950?, claming this to be an "archaeologically confirmed fact" is unbased in my opinion. If you go to the link, you see a statement, saying - "One legend is true, MacKinnon said: Vomitoriums. There might be so much food at Piso's table, and everyone would want to indulge. To make room, they would excuse themselves from the table and purge." - based on what? MacKinnon is an academic in Archeology, but I was only able to find one article where he coauthored or helped edit, name: "Corinth, 2011: Investigation of the West Hall of the Theater". There, you can see the word "Vomitorium" only mentioned once, in relation to "To the east of the cavea the evidence is in a raking buttress that had been built to reinforce the vomitorium after the earthquake of a.d. 77".... And so, I hardly was able to find any shred of evidence it is indeed an historical fact, on the contrary.Seithx (talk) 21:22, 15 February 2022 (UTC)