The Ancient Greek Baker Who Invented the Professional Oven

The Ancient Greek Baker Who Invented the Professional Oven

The traditional ovens we know today find their roots in ancient Athens. Here, an oven in Pompeii. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain When we think about important innovations of ancient Greece, our minds immediately turn to philosophy, mathematics, architecture and other aspects of our intellectual lives; we don’t think of bakeries and ovens, right? But what if this humble yet essential part of humanity’s everyday life, the lowly oven, fin…