by Brendan McLeod wwwbrendanmcleodcom hello exhibit A a good dog a tiny dog and a big yellow dog Why keep animals in the first place What kind of pets did people keep Whats some really ID: 288810
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Pets of the Ancient World
by Brendan McLeod
www.brendanmcleod.com
helloSlide2
exhibit A: a good dogSlide3
a tiny dog and a big yellow dogSlide4
Why keep animals in the first place?
What kind of pets did people keep?
What’s some really craaaaaaaaaaaazy pets that people had?
they didn’t have
pokemon
back then so they had to pretendSlide5
i
n fact this isn’t even the whole world, I had to crop out
antartica
. sorry penguinsSlide6
WHY KEEP PETS?
oh my godSlide7
HUNTIN’
this panel was originally just titled “MURDER”Slide8
GUARDIN’
geese are assholes.
I’m
not afraid to say it. sorry for swearing.Slide9
RELIGIN’
look at how pleased the cat is for chopping off a snake’s head.
w
hat the hell.Slide10
BRAGGIN’
there were multiple known dudes of Roman history who were absolutely nuts about eelsSlide11
WHAT KIND OF PETS?
look at how smallSlide12
Dogs
“cave
canem
,” Latin for “beware of dog,” uses the same verb (
caveo
) as “caveat emptor”, “let the buyer beware.”look, you learned an actual Latin thing tonight! good job!Slide13
Weasels and ferrets
we’re halfway through the slides!!
g
ood team effort! keep up that hustle!!!!Slide14
Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaakes
:DSlide15
Birbs
the pet duck is really upset about the baby minotaur situation on this urn on the left, let me tell you whatSlide16
Cats :3
here are some of the Egyptian gods associated with cats: Bastet,
Mihos
,
Seichmet
, Tefnut, Mafdet, Mekal, Pakhet, Menhit, Matit, Mut, Sesmu, and Wadjet. phew!!!Slide17
WHAT’S SOME CRAZY PETS
y
ou don’t work here you’re not fooling anyoneSlide18
Ramses II and the Lions
t
he animated “prince of
egypt
” movie was way fucking better than that
christian bale moses nonsense.I’m not afraid to say it. sorry for swearing.Slide19
Alexander and
Bucephalus
speaking of animated stuff,
y’all
ever watch Reign the
Conquerer? that show was nuts! even my dad thought so!!Slide20
Julius Caesar and the Giraffe
Caesar did lots of other ostentatious stuff, too, though, like naming an entire month after himself…
a month that we’re in RIGHT NOW!! (
dunn
dunn dunnnn!)Slide21
Augustus Caesar and the Crow
Augustus actually also named a month after himself, and then made it illegal for anyone else to do that ever again.Slide22
Catullus and his mistress’s sparrow
achewood
once described Catullus as “the first poet to ever get his bone on.”Slide23
Sertorius and the white fawn
“”I’m
gonna
go start my OWN Roman Republic! With blackjack! And hookers!”Slide24
Nero and Phoebe
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus
Germanicus
: “Our Neckbeard-
iest
Emperor”Slide25
Caligula and
Incitatus
horse to meet youSlide26
References and Further Reading
Animals
in Roman Life and Art by J.M.C. Toynbee, Available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ANIMALS-ROMAN-LIFE-AND-ART/dp/1781590915The Cat in Ancient Egypt by
Jaromir Malek, Available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Ancient-Egypt-Jaromir-Malek/dp/0812216326
“Greek and Roman Household Pets” by Francis D. Lazenby, The Classical Journal
Vol. 33 No. 4, Reproduced at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CJ/44/4/Household_Pets*.html“Penelope’s Geese: Pets of the Ancient Greeks” by Kenneth Kitchell, Expedition Magazine Vol. 53, No. 3, Archived at http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/53-3/kitchell.pdf“On the Egyptian origin of the domestic cat” by Leonard Ginsburg, Georgette Delibrias, Anne Minaut-Gout, Helene Valladas, and Alain Zivie, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. nat. 4th serie, 13, Reproduced in translated form at http://paleoglot.org/files/Ginsburg&_91.pdf“In Ancient Egypt, Life Wasn’t Easy for Elite Pets” by Traci Watson, National Geographic (May 2015), Archived at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150525-ancient-egypt-zoo-pets-hierakonpolis-baboons-archaeology/The Ape in Antiquity by William Coffman McDermott, Archived at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004248913Short Tales and Anecdotes from Ancient History by Sir William Smith, Archived at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=L6UBAAAAYAAJ“Dogs in Ancient Greece and Rome” by James Grout, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/canes/canes.html
Slides available (tomorrow) at www.brendanmcleod.comSlide27
Thanks for listening!
Questions??