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Product Description: Romans clearly loved their pets and gave them human names. The wealthiest kept gazelles and ibex on their estates as living lawn ornaments. At the same time, they imported exotic animals from Africa and then slaughtered them in both gladiatorial combat and cold-blooded spectacle...read more

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9780801407857 | Cornell Univ Pr, October 1, 1973, cover price $51.50 | About this edition: Describes the social functions and significance of birds and animals most often represented in literature and art

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9781781590911 | Reprint edition (Pen & Sword, July 19, 2013), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Romans clearly loved their pets and gave them human names.
9780801855337 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1996), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: "[This] is one of the outstanding paradoxes of the Roman mind that a people that was so much alive to the interest and beauty of the animal kingdom, that admired the intelligence and skill to be found in so many of its representatives, that never seemed to tire of the sight of rare and unfamiliar specimens, that displayed such devotion to its pets, should yet have taken pleasure in the often hideous sufferings and agonizing deaths of quantities of magnificent and noble creatures.

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Product Description: Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem-Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives...read more

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9780801405938 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Never before available in paperback, J.

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9780801855078 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 4, 1996), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Never before available in paperback, J.

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