what did early people believe about the shark
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THE FIRST REPRESENTATION of an attack by what must have been a shark was discovered on a vase unearthed at Ischia, Italy, an island just west of modem day Naples. The vase shows a man seized by a fish reminiscent perhaps of a shark, and has been dated c. 725 BC.
The first account of an attack by a marine monster dates back to Greek history, with Herodotus in 492 BC. He was not talking specifically of the shark, even though the latter was probably involved, for the word did not yet exist and no really lifelike graphic representation was to appear before the I5th century. Again in Greek history, the poet Leonidas of Tarentum evokes the tragic end of the sponge-fisher Tharsys, when he was being hoisted aboard his boat by his two companions and was attacked by a sea monster which tore away the lower sections of his body. Tharsys' companions brought ashore his remains and thus, the poet elegantly noted, Tharsys was buried both on land and at sea.
The first reference in English dates back to 1580 when an officer related an attack he had witnessed between Portugal and India.
The first account of an attack by a marine monster dates back to Greek history, with Herodotus in 492 BC. He was not talking specifically of the shark, even though the latter was probably involved, for the word did not yet exist and no really lifelike graphic representation was to appear before the I5th century. Again in Greek history, the poet Leonidas of Tarentum evokes the tragic end of the sponge-fisher Tharsys, when he was being hoisted aboard his boat by his two companions and was attacked by a sea monster which tore away the lower sections of his body. Tharsys' companions brought ashore his remains and thus, the poet elegantly noted, Tharsys was buried both on land and at sea.
The first reference in English dates back to 1580 when an officer related an attack he had witnessed between Portugal and India.
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THE FIRST REPRESENTATION of an attack by what must have been a shark was discovered on a vase unearthed at Ischia, Italy, an island just west of modem day Naples. The vase shows a man seized by a fish reminiscent perhaps of a shark, and has been dated c. 725 BC.
The first account of an attack by a marine monster dates back to Greek history, with Herodotus in 492 BC. He was not talking specifically of the shark, even though the latter was probably involved, for the word did not yet exist and no really lifelike graphic representation was to appear before the I5th century. Again in Greek history, the poet Leonidas of Tarentum evokes the tragic end of the sponge-fisher Tharsys, when he was being hoisted aboard his boat by his two companions and was attacked by a sea monster which tore away the lower sections of his body. Tharsys' companions brought ashore his remains and thus, the poet elegantly noted, Tharsys was buried both on land and at sea.
The first account of an attack by a marine monster dates back to Greek history, with Herodotus in 492 BC. He was not talking specifically of the shark, even though the latter was probably involved, for the word did not yet exist and no really lifelike graphic representation was to appear before the I5th century. Again in Greek history, the poet Leonidas of Tarentum evokes the tragic end of the sponge-fisher Tharsys, when he was being hoisted aboard his boat by his two companions and was attacked by a sea monster which tore away the lower sections of his body. Tharsys' companions brought ashore his remains and thus, the poet elegantly noted, Tharsys was buried both on land and at sea.
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