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Marcus Gavius Apicius
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1st century BC Roman aristocrat and gourmet
OverviewAI-generated
Marcus Gavius Apicius was a male human born in 25 BCE and died in 37. He lived during the Roman Empire and held citizenship in Ancient Rome. His occupations included chef, writer, merchant, and gastronomist. He was a member of the Gavia gens. Apicius spoke and wrote in Latin.
He is the author of works such as *Apicio De re coquinaria* and *De opsoniis et condimentis, sive arte coquinaria, libri decem*. These texts are also known as *Kochbuch der altrömischen Kaiserzeit*. He had one child named Apicata. Apicius died by suicide due to intoxication. His life and works have been described by sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Europeana Sparql. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Apicio De re coquinaria
- Apicii librorvm X qui dicvntvr de re coqvinaria qvae extant
- Apicii Librorvm X Qui Dicvntvr de Re Coqvinaria Qvae Extant
- De opsoniis et condimentis, sive arte coquinaria, libri decem
- Kochbuch der altrömischen Kaiserzeit
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1948-06-06
- Active to
- 2018-05-17
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 1993 · cited 10,583x
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· 2001 · cited 10,444x
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· 2012 · cited 9,212x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Child
- Apicata
- Occupation
- gastronomist
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Image
- Apicius from Soyer.png
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 0025-00-00
- date of death
- 0037-00-00
- Commons category
- Marcus Gavius Apicius
- name in kana
- マルクス・ガウィウス・アピキウス
- time period
- Roman Empire
- gens
- Gavia gens
- cause of death
- intoxication
- manner of death
- Suicide
- writing language
- Latin
- P13311
- San Carlos
Sources (3)
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Works in European collections
25 objects attributed to Marcus Gavius Apicius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
In ad hoc works he contends. Apicij Caelij De opsoniis et conpicis, siue Arte coquinaria, books 10. Item, Gabrielis Humelbergij... in Apicij Caelij libros 10. annotationes
Apicius De culinaria
About culinary art. Ten books
De opsoniis et condimentis sive arte coquinaria libri decem (etc.)
De Apsoniis et Condimensiontis sive arte coquinaria libri X; item Gabrielio Humelbergii in Apicii Caelii libros X annotationes.
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Encyclopedic overview
Imaginary portrait of Apicius from Alexis Soyer's Pantropheon. Marcus Gavius Apicius is believed to have been a Roman gourmet and lover of luxury, who lived sometime in the 1st century AD, during the reign of Tiberius. The Roman cookbook Apicius is often attributed to him, though it is impossible to prove the connection. He was the subject of On the Luxury of Apicius, a famous work, now lost, by the Greek grammarian Apion. M. Gavius Apicius apparently owed his cognomen (his third name) to an earlier Apicius, who lived around 90 BC, whose family name it may have been: if this is true, Apicius had come to mean "gourmand" as a result of the fame of this earlier lover of luxury.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marcus Gavius Apicius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.