Hmm...there actually was a comet so bright that you could see it during the daytime, appearing during Julius Caesar's funeral Games.
(no, Augustus didn't make it up: the Chinese saw it too).
LINK and Book
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Pliny's history is on line at Perseus. Wikipedia summary...
and trivia: Pliny the elder died when he went to investigate and also rescue folks in the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompei... his nephew (Pliny the younger) wrote a letter describing what happened LINK.
The bad news: Vesuvius last erupted in 1944....
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In the Iliad, they keep giving each other "tripods"...some of these references seem to be of cauldrons, but others accompany cauldrons, presumably a three point seat to put a jar or cauldron on top of...
As opposed to a modern tripod:
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So what did Ancient Greeks eat?
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The soup that accompanied the flatbread or gruel was from fish or meat in the Iliad/Odessey (800=1000BC) but by Classic times (500 BC), it was veggies (lentils etc), and the link quotes Hesiod on this.
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