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"The Greeks ate a simple healthy diet, involving bread, vegetables and fruit - none which (except potatoes - γεώμηλα -in every guise) are available at Hogwarts.
by Jun8 11y ago
"The Greeks ate a simple healthy diet, involving bread, vegetables and fruit - none which (except potatoes - γεώμηλα -in every guise) are available at Hogwarts."
Wait, Ancient Greeks didn't eat potatoes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_potato http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_potato)!
- cafard 11y agoNor was their notion of a healthy diet quite that implied. The meals in Homer always or nearly always have meat, and the one I remember best--the suitor's lunch, shared by Odysseus after he thrashes the beggar--is goat stomachs stuffed with blood and fat.
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- schoen 11y agoYeah, I'm not sure where this reference comes from. γεώμηλα is a Modern Greek word for potato (literally 'earth apple', presumably a calque from French pomme de terre). It might be a sensible way to refer to potatoes in Ancient Greek too, but it wouldn't be sensible to suggest they were eaten in Ancient Greece!
- madaxe_again 11y agoWere they, our history of circumnavigation would need a complete redraft, as last I checked Chiloe (from where potatoes come) is some distance from Greece.