“No breakfast,” he said. “Breakfast was unknown in early history, Rome, Byzantium, ancient Greece, breakfast wasn’t really a thing.” Oh? In Robert Fitzgerald's

“No breakfast,” he said. “Breakfast was unknown in early history, Rome, Byzantium, ancient Greece, breakfast wasn’t really a thing.” Oh? In Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey, Book XVI begins But there were two men in the mountain hut-- Odysseus and the swineherd. At first light, blowing their fire up, they cooked breakfast ... Liddell and Scott say that "ariston", the Homeric term, slipped later in the day, ending up about 11 am; on the other hand, they say it was replaced by "akratisma".