2. Aristotle and His Disciples

It is among the Greeks that we find the first foundations of ichthyology, and of all other sciences as well. Actually, it has been claimed that they at first did not consider fishes an important food. Homer’s heroes were never served fishes, and even Ulysses wrote that his companions caught fishes only after being pressed by hunger. Some commentators believed that an excuse may be found in the words, “For hunger weighed upon our stomachs” —words used by Menelaus in a like circumstance, but th..