International Vegetarian Union (IVU)
	History of Vegetarianism - Ancient Greece and Rome

Hesiod (c. 8th century BC) Orphic Communities (c540 BC - ?) Italiano Comuniteagrave orfiche Pagan Regeneration: a study of mystery initiations in the Graeco-Roman world (link to Google Books) Harold Rideout Willoughby 1929. p.129: The ascetic prescription included an abstinence from meat... Pythagoras (?580-?500 BC) and the Pythagoreans 中文 - 毕达哥拉斯 / いゅ - 拨笷┰吹 Español - Pitágoras Português - Pitágoras The life of Pythagoras: with his Symbols and Golden verses (link to Google Books) M.Dacier 1707 Herodotus (484-425BC) Herodotus (link to Google Books) - trans. Rev. William Beloe 1831. P.236: The neck of land which stretches from the country of the Gindanes towards the sea is possessed by the Lotophagi who live entirely upon the fruit of the lotos Empedokles (?480-430BC) The Fragments of Empedocles (link to Questia.com) trans. W.E. Leonard Ph.D., Chicago, 1908. Part 2 says much about transmigration of souls and the Orphic/Pythagorean traditions. Socrates (?470-399 BC) Español - Socrates Português - Sócrates Antisthenes (?445-365 BC) Plato (?427-?347 BC) Plato's Republic (link to archive.org) trans. Lewis Campbell M.A., LL.D., London, 1902. In Books II & III Plato (428-347 BC) develops the dietary ideas of Pythagoras. Diogenes (?412-?323 BC) Italiano - Diogene The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (link to Google Books)  by Diogenes Laertius (?412-?323 BC), trans. C. D. Yonge B.A., London, 1853. Includes a section on Pythagoras, animals as food etc. Aristotle (384-322BC) Español - Aristóteles Theophrastus (?372-?287BC) Epicurus (341-270BC) Español - Epicurus Cicero (Roman) (106-43 B.C.) Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 BC - AD 17) Español - Ovidio Ovid's Metamorphoses (link to archive.org) By Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC - AD 17). This edition pub. London 1822. Book 15, p.516 is a biography of Pythagoras. p.519: 'He first forbid animal food to be served up at the tables of men'. Seneca (c.5 BC - AD 65) Seneca's Morals (link to archive.org) - by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.5 BC - AD 65) - trans Sir Roger L'Estrange, New York, c.1870. "I gave over eating of flesh", p110 Plutarch (Greek) (c.AD 46-c.120) Plutarch's Morals Vol.5 (link to archive.org) by Plutarch (c.AD 46-c.120)- edited by W. W. Goodwin Ph.D, Harvard, 1878. Includes the essay 'Of Eating Flesh' Plotinus (Roman) (?205-?270) Italiano - Plotino Porphyry (Greek) (233 - 304) Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence from Animal Food; etc. (link to archive.org) - Porphyry (233-304 AD), trans. T. Taylor, London, 1823 Iamblichus (Greek) (c.250-c.325) Emperor Julianus 331-363 A.D. The works of the Emperor Julian . . . translated from the Greek (link to archive.org) pub. 1798. p.178: Julian . . . lived on vegetables (several references to his Pythagorean diet.) Christian and Western Literature 5th Century to 16th Century Book review: Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate by Richard Sorabji (book review) - early Greek/Christian philosophy.