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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 | ||
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 | |
Notes | ||
Bibliography | ||
Index |
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