halieutics

Updated: May 16, 2025

That there were other Greek writers who dealt with fish and fishing and composed "halieutics" we know from Athenaeus. In the first book of his Deipnosophistae he gives a list of them. But he compares their work unfavourably with the passage of Homer already cited, in a way which suggests that their knowledge of angling was not a great advance upon the knowledge of their remote literary ancestors.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1