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Download or read book Grain-mills and Flour in Classical Antiquity written by L. A. Moritz and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a review of the milling implements and equipment of Greece and Rome, this study argues that the grain-mill underwent two fundamental changes in its history and that one of these - the invention of the rotary mill - took place in classical antiquity at a time much later than used to be believed. The second part of the study deals with the meal and flour used for bread, ending with a detailed analysis of the relevant evidence described in the eighteenth book of Pliny's Natural History .