While on the subject of mushroom-shaped objects, around 480 BCE Themistoclesis said to have robbed his fellow-citizens of spear and shield (Gk δόρυκαὶ τὴν ἀσπίδα)and degraded the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and theoar. (Gk ὑπηρέσιον καὶ κώπην).
