Animals For Show And Pleasure In Ancient Rome
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780812219197
Subjects: Animal spectacles; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Games; Science; History: World; Ancient Greece; Menageries; Antiquities; Ancient - Rome; Animals; History; Rome
First sentence: "IT cheers me to look at them," says Penelope in Homer of her geese; and it is with that kind of interest in animals among the Greeks and Romans (principally the latter) that this book is mainly concerned.