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…”
– 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 🙂