Fishing from the Earliest Times

53 chapters

1. 1PREFACE
2. 2INTRODUCTION
3. 3PART I
4. 4PART II
5. 5GREEK AND ROMAN FISHING.[122]
6. 6CHAPTER I HOMER—THE POSITION OF FISHERMEN
7. 7CHAPTER II HOMER—METHODS OF FISHING
8. 8CHAPTER III THE CONTEST BETWEEN HOMER AND HESIOD—HOMER’S DEATH
9. 9CHAPTER IV THE DOLPHIN—HERODOTUS—THE ICHTHYOPHAGI—THE TUNNY
10. 10CHAPTER V
11. 11CHAPTER VI CHARACTERISTICS OF FISHERMEN IN GREECE AND ROME—POVERTY “THE BADGE OF ALL OUR TRIBE”—DEITIES OF FISHING
12. 12CHAPTER VII THEOCRITUS—THE GREEK EPIGRAMMATISTS
13. 13CHAPTER VIII THE TWO PLINYS—MARTIAL—WAS THE ROD JOINTED?
14. 14CHAPTER IX THE FIRST MENTION OF A FLY
15. 15CHAPTER X
16. 16CHAPTER XI
17. 17CHAPTER XII
18. 18CHAPTER XIII AUSONIUS—SALMO, SALAR AND FARIO—FIRST MENTION OF THE PIKE

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