Classical cats : the rise and fall of the sacred cat /
"There has been much debate about the position of the cat in ancient Greece and Rome. Artistic representations are sometimes ambiguous, and its role as a mouse-catcher seems often to have been carried out by weasels. Other evidence clearly suggests that the cat was as important to Greeks and Ro...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The cat in history. Evolution, biology, and behavior. Types of domestic cat. Mice and rats
- 1. Egypt. The Libyan wildcat. The miu: the domesticated cat. Iconography. The goddess in the house: the sacred cats of Egypt. Egyptian cats from the fifth century B.C. through the Roman era, A.D. 330. Folklore. Cats in the Near East outside Egypt
- 2. Greece. The earliest Greek cats: c. 6000-500 B.C. Cats of the classical and Hellenistic eras: 500-30 B.C. The distribution of the cat by the end of the first century B.C.
- 3. Rome. The earliest Italian cats: 800-500 B.C. Cats of the Roman Republic: 500-30 B.C. Cats of the Imperial era: 30 B.C.-A.D. 500. The distribution of the cat by A.D. 500
- 4. The early Middle Ages: A.D. 500-1000. The Latin, Celtic, and Germanic West. The Byzantine East. The Muslim world. Epilogue: Persecution and redemption. The transformation of paganism: A.D. 1000-1700. The fate of Diana and her cat. The Black Death.
- The afterlife of the sacred cat. Renaissance and redemption. App. 1. Portrayals of cats, cheetahs, and pantherines (lions, leopards) in Greek and Roman art
- App. 2. Cat remains from Greek and Roman archeological sites
- App. 3. The Vox in Rama of Gregory IX.