Classical cats : the rise and fall of the sacred cat
This book is the first comprehensive survey of the evidence about 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 the zoology of the cat. He also sets the ancient evidence in the wider context of the Egyptian period that preceded it, as well as views of the Church fathers who ushered antiquity into the Middle Ages. This is the definitive book on classical cats
Print Book, English, 2001
Routledge, London, 2001