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
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.