Cave Canem: Animals and Roman Society

by Iain Ferris

In many ways, Roman attitudes to animals were similar to our own; they kept animals as household pets, they farmed animals for meat and hunted and fished. However, animals also played a far more significant role in Roman culture and religion - and in the Roman imagination. In this book, Dr Iain Ferris discusses the extraordinary slaughter of huge numbers of animals for entertainment in the Roman arena, their association with the gods, their place...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445652935
• ISBN13: 9781445652931
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"