CLASSICAL CORNER

FORTEANA FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD COMPILED BY BARRY BALDWIN

BARRY BALDWIN

305: GETTING THEIR GREENS From Spitting Image: Mrs Thatcher: I’ll have the steak. Waiter: Vegetables? Mrs T: Oh, they’ll have the same. Bibliography is ever-expanding, print and online. Try: H Williams, The Ethics of Diet (1883); C Spenser, The Heretics’ Feast (1993, considered the first-ever history of Vegetarianism); E Binch-Dann, Vegetables: A Biography (2012); L Ballerini, A Feast of Weeds (2012); T Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India (2006). Although fishing is mentioned in a simile, Homer’s heroes were unabashed carnivores. In everyday life, many were reluctant vegetarians, being unable to afford meat, their one chance to get it being at pagan sacrifices, a reason for early Christianity’s unpopularity in Rome. Describing Roman campaigns in the East (AD 60), Tacitus (Annals, bk14 ch24) makes a…

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