CONTENTS 



FAGB 



Preface vii 



Introduction 3 



GREEK AND ROMAN FISHING 



CHAPTER 



I. Homer. Position of Fishermen 63 



II. Homer. Methods of Fishing 74 



III. Contest between Homer and Hesiod. Homer's Death . 86 



IV. The Dolphin. Herodotus. The Ichthyophagi. The 



Tunny 90 



V. Plato. Aristotle the First-Scale Reader. Senses of 



Fish 106 



VI. Characteristics of Fishermen in Greece and Rome. 



Deities of Fishing 116 



VII. Theocritus. The Greek Epigrammatists . . . .133 

 VIII. The Two Plinys. Martial. Was the Rod Jointed? . 141 



IX. The First Mention of a Fly 152 



X. The Scarus. The First Notice, "Fishing Prohibited" . 159 

 XI. Plutarch : Charge against Him of contemning Fishing 

 False. Cleopatra's Fishing. Oppian. The Torpedo 



FOR Gout. Athen^us 169 



XII. ^lian. The Macedonian Invention, or the First 



Mention of an Artificial Fly 185 



XIII. AusoNius. Salmo. Salar and Fario. First Mention of 



the Pike in Classical Literature 194 



XIV. Infatuation for Fish. Extravagant Prices. Costly 



Entertainments. Vitellius. Cleopatra. Apicius. Cooks. 

 Sauces 201 



