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Fishing from the Earliest Times

by William Radcliffe

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  1. 1Dedication — Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Part I
  4. 4Part II
  5. 5Greek and Roman Fishing
  6. 6Chapter II — Homer — Methods of Fishing
  7. 7Chapter III — The Contest Between Homer and Hesiod — Homer’s Death
  8. 8Chapter IV — The Dolphin — Herodotus — The Ichthyophagi — The Tunny
  9. 9Chapter V — Aristotle — The First “Scale-Reader”…
  10. 10Chapter VI — Characteristics of Fishermen in Greece and Rome — Pove…
  11. 11Chapter VII — Theocritus — The Greek Epigrammatists
  12. 12Chapter VIII — The Two Plinys — Martial — Was the Rod Jointed?
  13. 13Chapter IX — The First Mention of a Fly
  14. 14Chapter X — The Scarus — The Earliest Acclimatisation of Fish — The…
  15. 15Chapter XI — Plutarch…
  16. 16Chapter XII — Ælian — The Macedonian Invention, or the First Mentio…
  17. 17Chapter XIII — Ausonius — Salmo, Salar and Fario — First Mention of…
  18. 18Chapter XIV — Infatuation for Fish — Extravagant Prices — Costly En…
  19. 19Chapter XV — Fish in Sacrifices — Pickled Fish — Vivaria of Oysters…
  20. 20Chapter XVI — Legal Regulations of Rome as Regards Fishing
  21. 21Chapter XVII
  22. 22Chapter XVIII — The Nine Fish Most Highly Prized
  23. 23Chapter XIX — Fish in Myths, Symbols, Diet, and Medicine
  24. 24Chapter XX — Diocletian’s Edict, 301 A.D. — Prices of Fish and Othe…
  25. 25Chapter XXI — Difference Between Roman and Modern Pisciculture
  26. 26Chapter XXII — The Ring of Helen
  27. 27Egyptian Fishing
  28. 28Chapter XXIII — “The Nile Is Egypt”
  29. 29Chapter XXIV — Tackle
  30. 30Chapter XXV — Abstention From Fish
  31. 31Chapter XXVI — Sacred Fish
  32. 32Chapter XXVII — Fisheries — Attempted Correlation of the Price of F…
  33. 33Chapter XXVIII — Fishing With the Hair of the Dead
  34. 34Chapter XXIX — The Ring of Polycrates
  35. 35Assyrian Fishing
  36. 36Chapter XXXI — Fishing Methods
  37. 37Chapter XXXII — The Earliest Recorded Contract of Fishing
  38. 38Chapter XXXIII — Fish-Gods — Dagon
  39. 39Chapter XXXIV — The Legends of Adapa, and of the Flood
  40. 40Chapter XXXV — Fish — Vivaria — The First Instance of Poaching
  41. 41Chapter XXXVI — Fish in Offerings, Auguries, etc.
  42. 42Chapter XXXVII — The Fight Between Marduk and Tiāmat
  43. 43Jewish Fishing
  44. 44Chapter XXXIX — Fish With and Without Scales — Methods of Fishing —…
  45. 45Chapter XL — Ichthyolatry Improbable — Fish Not in Sacrifices or Au…
  46. 46Chapter XLI — The Fish of Tobias — Demonic Possession
  47. 47Chapter XLII — The Fish of Moses — Jonah — Solomon’s Ring
  48. 48Chinese Fishing — Chapter XLIII — “Plus UN Pays Produit des Poisson…

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