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Classical Cats: The rise and fall of the sacred cat 1st Edition

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Today when we think of domestic cats, we recall the familiar hearthside companion and the mischievous playmate. It is difficult to comprehend that in the past the animal has played a fundamental role in the development of European and Western civilization. The human relationship to the cat has been important for most of the last four millennia.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Donald Engels charts the history and significance of the cat from ancient Egypt to the middle ages, exploring such phenomena as the worship of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet, the infamous cat massacres and witch hunts of the thirteenth century, and the role of the cat in combating disease and starvation. Classical Cats presents a unique and entertaining view of the vicissitudes of the cat in history.

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    0415261627
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    978-0415261623
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    June 21, 2001
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    240 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (June 21, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415261627
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415261623
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent reference about classical cats
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2000
A domestic animal, the cat has always been an essential part of modern society and culture. The author of this great book offers a completely comprehensive background - religious and mythical - of the feline's importance in Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. With few illustrations, this is a book that is most interesting for its content and most useful for its extensive research and information.
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4.0 out of 5 stars History of the Cat
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Great book for those of you who want to discover how and when the Cat and Human relationship started, and it's ups and downs throughout the ages. Also interesting to note are the change in views of religions over the ages, and how the views related to cats and other animals. It solved my curiosity of how the cat began its relationship with us, and how it has persisted throughout the ages, even somewhat during the Middle Ages when cats were considered vermin.

A bit repetetive in places is my reason for the three stars.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Problems with compilation and focus, but interesting info
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2003
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This book describes the evolution of the domestic cat, and its history through Egyptian, Greek, and Roman classical periods, as well a brief foray into early Medieval times. It provides a comprehensive review of these periods, with many footnotes.

However, it never quite fulfills the criteria for either a good popular or academic book. The writing style is rather dense for a popular book, and it can meander rather incoherently at times. For an academic treatise, it jumps to conclusions, without clearly supporting them in the text. It can be quite windy and repetitive, like an undergraduate trying to stretch to fill a word quota on a term paper. It also includes topics rather far afield from the stated focus of the book, seeming to include random unrelated tidbits the author found during his research. Some of them are interesting in their own right, but again seem like filler. Also, some of these discussions appear to have an unfortunate tone of anti-Catholic polemics.

That said, the book will be of interest to cat lovers, if you can get past the writing style to the collection of data unlikely to be found in such a comprehensive collection elsewhere.
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2.0 out of 5 stars There must be a more interesting book put there on this.
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2021
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Dry and repetitive, lacking strong organization. Compelling subject matter not done just service.
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Luce
5.0 out of 5 stars Classical Cats (1999) en 2015
Reviewed in France on June 30, 2015
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Même seize ans après sa parution, ce livre donne l'essentiel de ce qu'on peut savoir sur les chats dans l'Antiquité. La principale mise à jour à faire concerne le lieu et la date de la domestication. Le Musée du Malgré Tout (www.museedumalgretout.be/) présente en ce moment au public une exposition sur les chats et chiens dans les époques anciennes. Il va faire paraître un catalogue avec de nouveaux textes.
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Bourlon Christine
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting book sent to me very very quickly
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2013
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It 's perfect : I already red this book. And I hoped to buy this book
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