In the 8th century BCE Hesiod describes the ideal country feast in Works and Days:
"But at that time let me have a shady rock and Bibline wine, a clot of curds and milk of drained goats with the flesh of a heifer fed in the woods, that has never calved, and of firstling kids; then also let me drink bright wine…"
The 2nd–3rd century author Aelian, claims that Spartan cooks were prohibited from cooking anything other than meat.
Butter was known but seldom used either: Greeks saw it as a culinary trait of the Thracians of the northern Aegean coast, whom the Middle Comic poet Anaxandrides dubbed “butter eaters”. Yet Greeks enjoyed other dairy products.
Вметка: Траките всъщност са пра-българи в буквалния смисъл. Да, повърни ученото в училище.
Pythagoras (either the philosopher or a gymnastics master of the same name) was the first to direct athletes to eat meat.
А защо питагорейците са били, и били ли са, вегетарианци, не знам. Във всеки случай НЕ е било по причини свързани с правилното хранене.
Trainers later enforced some standard diet rules: to be an Olympic victor, “you have to eat according to regulations, keep away from desserts; you must not drink cold water nor can you have a drink of wine whenever you want”. It seems this diet was primarily based on meat, for Galen (ca. 180 AD) accused athletes of his day of “always gorging themselved on flesh and blood”. Pausanias also refers to a “meat diet”.
И сега за феновете на Спартаааааа и на спартанскотоооо трениранеееее и на смехотворния филм 300-ааааааа ....
Да не отварям дума, че Персите са героите и тези за пример в споменатата война.
Да не отварям и дума, че Българите са Перси.
A Lacedemonian Law concerning the Complexion and Constitution of the Body, and such as are too Fat.
There is a Lacedemonian Law which saith thus ; That no Lacedemonian shall be of an unmanly Complexion, or of greater weight then is fit for the Exercises ; for this seemeth to argue Laziness, that, Effeminacy. It was likewise ordered by Law, that every tenth day the young men should shew themselves naked before the Ephori ; If they were of a solid strong Constitution, and molded as it were for Exercise, they were commended ; but if any Limb was found to be soft and tender by reason of fatness accrued by idleness, they were beaten and punished. Moreover the Ephori took particular care every day that their Garments should be looked into, that they should be no otherwise then exact and fit to the Body. The Cooks at Lacedemon might not dress [dress - specifically : to prepare for cooking or for the table] any thing but flesh. He who was skilled in any other kind of Cookery was cast out of Sparta. Nauclidas Son of Polybiades, for being grown too fat and heavy through luxury and idleness, they took out of the publick Assembly, and threatned to punish him by banishment, unless he alter that blameable and rather Ionick then Laconick course of life : For his shape and habit of body was a shame to Lacedemon and our Laws.
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