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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

ancient pets roman http pets ancient http roman www egypt caesar archived amazon dog month augustus animals life stuff

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Slide1

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??