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BULA Blog: January 24, 2007
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Homer's Iliad mentions Beach Ultimate?

It's pretty amazing that in one of the first stories ever recorded in a book, tossing a disc on a beach gets a mention...

"...and his men beside the break of the sea-beach amused themselves with discs..."
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- The Iliad of Homer (Richmond Lattimore transl. Univ. Chicago 1967, Book II, line 773-774)

Thanks to Melissa Clarke and Chad Woods for bring this to our attention :-)

Posted by Patrick on January 24, 2007 9:34 AM
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