Paxamus, or Paxamos ( Greek: Πάξαμος), was an ancient Greek author from the Hellenistic period.... He composed a

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titled ''On Cooking'' and a text on farming titled ''On Farming''. Athenaeus, another Greek writer, mentioned Paxamus once in his work titled '' Deipnosophists''. Paxamus was perhaps the inventor of barley

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s named after him called " paximathia". He was quoted in the ''

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'', a Byzantine text on agriculture.

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