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Author | : Jaromír Málek |
Publisher | : British Museum Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Cats |
ISBN | : 9780714119700 |
Cats in Egypt were probably domesticated by around 4000 BC from wild ancestors. Over the following centuries, they became popular household pets and are regularly shown in tomb paintings of family life. This volume draws on artistic and written sources to show how they became widely-esteemed and revered animals in Egypt.
Author | : Donald W. Engels |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134692862 |
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 when did the cat become a domestic companion and worker as well? There has been much debate about the position of the cat in ancient Greece and Rome. Artistic representations are sometimes ambiguous, and its role as a mouse-catcher seems often to have been carried out by weasels. Yet other evidence clearly suggests that the cat was as important to Greeks and Romans as it is to many modern people. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the evidence for cats in Greece and Rome, and of their functions and representations in art. Donald Engels draws on authors from Aesop to Aristotle; on vase-painting, inscriptions and the plastic arts; and on a thorough knowledge of zoology of the cat. He also sets the ancient evidence in the wider context of the Egyptian period that preceded it, as well as the views of the Church fathers who ushered antiquity into the Middle Ages.
Author | : George Alfred Henty |
Publisher | : London : Blackie & Son |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Bast (Egyptian deity) |
ISBN | : |
In 1250 B.C. the teenaged son of the Egyptian high priest sets off a series of harrowing events when he accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes and, accompanied by his sister and two foreign slaves, embarks on a dangerous journey to find safe haven beyond the borders of Egypt.
Author | : Edith Hall |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0195392892 |
This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.
Author | : Kathleen Walker-Meikle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9780712352932 |
Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail and frequently accompanied by their natural prey, mice. Medieval cats were viewed as treasured pets, as fearsome mousers, as canny characters in fables, as associates of the Devil, and as magical creatures. Featuring an array of fascinating illustrations from the British Library's rich medieval collection, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts includes anecdotes about cats--both real and imaginary--to provide a fascinating picture of the life of the cat and its relationship with humans during the Medieval period. A great gift for all cat-lovers.
Author | : Tom Holland |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2007-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307386988 |
A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland’s brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.
Author | : Nia Gould |
Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1524855502 |
Become litter-ate in the basics of important art movements through a host of beautifully illustrated cats, each one inspired by a specific period in art hiss-tory: Surrealism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Ancient Egyptian (of course), and many more. From Claude Meow-net to Jackson Paw-llock, these creative cats will introduce you to key themes and artists you won't soon fur-get. Purr-haps even inspiring you to make your own version!
Author | : Rick Tillotson |
Publisher | : Clarkson Potter |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0307352544 |
Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard worker, but his frequent bouts of illness hinder his work.
Author | : Cat Jarman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643138707 |
Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain. Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
Author | : Juliet Clutton-Brock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Cats |
ISBN | : 9780714117584 |
Sometimes a friendly fireside companion, more often elusive and independent, the cat possesses an enigmatic appeal and unfathomable mystery, which have inspired writers poets, artists and craftsmen alike from the illuminations of the Lindisfarne Gospels to Rudyard Kipling.