The ethics of diet

"HESIOD-the poet par excellence of peace and of agriculture, as Homer is of war and of the "heroic" virtues-was born at Ascra, a village in Boeotia, a part of Hellas, which, in spite of its proverbial fame for beefeating and stupidity, gave birth to three other eminent persons-Pindar, the lyric poet, Epameinondas, the great military genius and statesman, and Plutarch, the most amiable moralist of antiquity."