Ancient Greece and Rome
Who was credited with the discovery of cheese in Greek mythology?
Cheese
History of cheese Cheese 62 Erato Psyche Nysa
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Ancient Greek mythology credited Aristaeus with the discovery of cheese. Homer's "Odyssey" (late 8th century BCE) describes the Cyclops making and storing sheep's and goats' milk cheese: A letter of Epicurus to his patron requests a wheel of hard cheese, so that he may make a feast whenever he wishes. Pliny recorded the tradition at Rome that Zoroaster had lived on cheese. By Roman times, cheese was an everyday food and cheese making a mature art. Columella's "De Re Rustica" (circa 65 CE) details a cheesemaking process involving rennet coagulation, pressing of the curd, salting, and aging. Pliny's "Natural History" (77 CE) devotes a chapter (XI, 97) to describing the diversity of cheeses enjoyed by Romans of the early Empire. He stated that the best cheeses came from "pagi" near Nîmes, identifiable as Lozère and Gévaudan, but did not keep long and had to be eaten fresh. 
Ancient Greek mythology credited Aristaeus with the discovery of cheese. Homer's "Odyssey" (8th century BCE) describes the Cyclops making and storing sheep's and goats' milk cheese. From Samuel Butler's translation:By Roman times, cheese was an everyday food and cheesemaking a mature art. Columella's "De Re Rustica" (circa 65 CE) details a cheesemaking process involving rennet coagulation, pressing of the curd, salting, and aging. Pliny's "Natural History" (77 CE) devotes a chapter (XI, 97) to describing the diversity of cheeses enjoyed by Romans of the early Empire. He stated that the best cheeses came from the villages near Nîmes, but did not keep long and had to be eaten fresh. Cheeses of the Alps and Apennines were as remarkable for their variety then as now. A Ligurian cheese was noted for being made mostly from sheep's milk, and some cheeses produced nearby were stated to weigh as much as a thousand pounds each. Goats' milk cheese was a recent taste in Rome, improved over the "medicinal taste" of Gaul's similar cheeses by smoking. Of cheeses from overseas, Pliny preferred those of Bithynia in Asia Minor.
62 Erato ( ) is a large and dark, probably carbonaceous Themistian asteroid. It is a member of the Eos family. Erato is the first asteroid to have been credited with co-discoverers, Oskar Lesser and Wilhelm Forster, who discovered it on September 14, 1860 from the Berlin Observatory. It was their first and only asteroid discovery. The name was chosen by Johann Franz Encke, director of the observatory, and refers to Erato, the Muse of lyric poetry in Greek mythology. 
  Psyche (mythology), the name of a female in Greek mythology, often associated with Cupid  
  Nysa (mythology), land in Greek mythology, where the young god Dionysus was raised  Nysiads, nymphs of Mount Nysa who cared for and taught the infant Dionysus  