Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plutarch, Whether Land Or Sea Animals Are More Clever, 959e

nan Just so the first man to kill a bear or a wolf won praise; and perhaps some cow or pig was condemned as suitable to slay because it had tasted the sacred meal placed before it. So from that point, as they now went on to eat the flesh of deer and hare and antelope, men were introduced to the consumption of sheep and, in some places, of dogs and horses. The tame goose and the dove upon the hearth, as Sophocles says, were dismembered and carved for food —not that hunger compelled men as it does weasels and cats, but for pleasure and as an appetizer. Thus the brute and the natural lust to kill in man were fortified and rendered inflexible to pity, while gentleness was, for the most part, deadened.

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ares	Naiden (2013) 242
aristophanes	Naiden (2013) 242
eileithyia	Naiden (2013) 242
enyalios	Naiden (2013) 242
hecate'	Naiden (2013) 242