Английская Википедия:Antagoras of Rhodes
Antagoras of Rhodes (Шаблон:Lang-grc-gre, born on Rhodes about 270 B.C.)[1] was a Greek poet. He was also noted for his cookery.
Biographical information
Antagoras wrote a Theban epic whilst in Pella,[2] and (extant) epigrams. Also was one of two attendant in the court of Antigonus II Gonatas, ruler of Macedonia[1] [3] Is recorded as having had some personal contact in his own time, with Philocydes (possibly envoy to Pharnabazus, son of Artabazus[4]) and was known to Hegesander.[5] Famed for his repartee Antagoras was described by contemporaries as; Шаблон:Cquote
Conger eels account
Whilst on campaign in the Balkans, King Antigonos Gonatas—who had journeyed with Antagoras—found Antagoras inside camp to be cooking conger eels. When asked as to the likelihood of Homer being able to produce the Iliad should he have decided instead to use his time in cookery, Antagoras replied that he thought it unlikely that Agammemnon would have involved himself in any exploits at all if he had chosen to wander around his camp looking for men cooking conger eels.
In one account of the story Plutarch first writes of the value of seafood above the common staple (lentils) and, showing the relative costs of foods against each other, uses the examples of the persons Philoxenus[6] the son of Eryxis, Androcydes the painter and Antagoras as examples for the preference of fish (a delicious food):[7]
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References
External links
Luard, E (2008) amazon.com open book showing traditional ways of cookery for the European peoples
Edward Phillips (1675) page 20 of Theatrum poetarum: or A compleat collection of the poets, especially the most eminent, of all ages. The antients distinguish't from the moderns in their several alphabets (Google eBook)
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 William Smith (ed) (1870) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Шаблон:ISBN from within Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ I. E. S. Edwards - (The Cambridge ancient history Volume 7, Part 1) from within books.google.co.uk website Retrieved 2011-09-14.
- ↑ Pausanias Description of Greece [with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A. Cambridge, MA, (1918)].perseus.tufts.edu Retrieved 2011-09-14
- ↑ James Ussher (2007)books.google.co.uk [Retrieved 2011-12-04] Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ Athenaeus: The Deipnosophists - BOOK 8 (excerpts) [25.] [340] Translated by C.D.Yonge (1854) in attalus.org [Retrieved 2001-12-04] see also: Deipnosophistae and deipnosophist
- ↑ Charles Anthon [William Smith (ed.)] (1843) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Anquities within books.google.co.uk website [Retrieved 2011-09-15]
- ↑ Plutarch .gutenberg.org website SYMPOSIACS-BOOK III :QUESTION IV. WHETHER THE SEA OR LAND AFFORDS BETTER FOOD Retrieved 2011-09-14
