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Classical Cats: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Cat
Classical Cats: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Cat, The cat has played a significant role in history from the earliest times. Its part in the religion and art of ancient Egypt is well known, no less than its association with witchcraft in the Middle Ages. But when did the cat become a domestic companion an, Classical Cats: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Cat has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Classical Cats: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Cat
  • Written by author Donald W Engels
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, Inc., November 1999
  • The cat has played a significant role in history from the earliest times. Its part in the religion and art of ancient Egypt is well known, no less than its association with witchcraft in the Middle Ages. But when did the cat become a domestic companion an
  • This is the definitive book on classical cats. The cat has played a significant role in history from the earliest times. Well known is its role in the religion and art of ancient Egypt, no less than its association with witchcraft in the Middle Ages. But
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List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: The cat in history
Evolution, biology, and behavior
Types of domestic cat
Mice and rats
1Egypt
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
2Greece
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.
3Rome
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
4The 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. 1Portrayals of cats, cheetahs, and pantherines (lions, leopards) in Greek and Roman art
App. 2Cat remains from Greek and Roman archeological sites
App. 3The Vox in Rama of Gregory IX
Notes
Bibliography
Index


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