Fishing from the earliest times - Blog

FISHING FOR POT, NOT SPORT 73ladies are depicted standing in a car at a boar-hunt ^— perhaps" in at the death" —certainly makes for considerable qualification,and, if succeeded by similar finds, for complete reversal ofthe non-sporting theory.On Circe's Island, Odysseus strikes down " a tall antleredstag " as "he was coming down from his pasture in the woodlandto the river, for verily the might of the Sun was sore uponhim." He bears the " huge beast " across his neck to the blackship of his companions, who soon devour it. This is the onlymention of venison in Homer [Od., X. 158 if.).1 G. Rodenwaldt in Tiryns (Athens, 1912), 11. 96 fi. pis. 12 f.