12-23-2006, 05:39 PM
I always thoght the ancient Greeks and Romans knew nothing about bananas, but here is a picture from a Libyan site that makes me pause:
![[Image: ghirza_snn4.JPG]](http://www.livius.org/a/libya/ghirza/ghirza_snn4.JPG)
This is not a date palm, because dates look like this:
![[Image: awjila_dates.jpg]](http://www.livius.org/a/libya/awjila/awjila_dates.jpg)
and the artist would have rendered dates with dots, not lines.
I think bananas in Libya are not impossible, but does someone have confirmation? Or am I just simply wrong, and were bananas well-known in ancient Greece and Rome? If so, how did they call them?
This is not a date palm, because dates look like this:
and the artist would have rendered dates with dots, not lines.
I think bananas in Libya are not impossible, but does someone have confirmation? Or am I just simply wrong, and were bananas well-known in ancient Greece and Rome? If so, how did they call them?
