Fossilized olive leaves found on the Greek islands of the Aegean are sai d to be 50-60,000 years old, and the systematic cultivation of olives trees is said to have begun on the island of Crete in Neolithic times. Greek ties to the olive tree run deep, indeed. Greece is one of the top three olive oil producing countries, and Greek olive oil is the finest in the world. Top Grades of Olive Oil.

Greece is full of olive groves.

Pythagorean diet, the first vegetarian diet. Ar from being a relatively new phenomenon, vegetarianism has enjoyed a long and diverse history and has been preserved in most cultures since the beginnings of time. In antiquity, vegetarianism found favour with some of the great figures of the classical world, most notably Pythagoras.

Clearly, in quoting this Archestratus so often, you people have filled our banquet with indecency. Is there anything calculated to corrupt that this fine poet has failed to say? Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 335b. The poem was translated or imitated in Latin by Ennius. The standard edition of the fragments, with commentary and translation, is by Olson and Sens.