Art Break: A Dog's Life in Antiquity

Archaeologists Michael MacKinnon and Christina DiFabio explore how art, texts, and animal bones reveal ancient bonds with canine companions.
Read Michael MacKinnon’s article “’Sick as a dog’: zooarchaeological evidence for pet dog health and welfare in the Roman World”: www.jstor.org/stable/25679746
Discover more about dogs in ancient Athens: peoplingthepast.com/2022/02/0...
Watch a brief history of the domestication of dogs: • A brief history of dog...
This program was presented Online on Thursday, August 10, 2023, hwww.getty.edu/visit/cal/event....
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[@traviswadezinn]

Really enjoyed this talk (attended on zoom) - thank you

[@doctrixbleischtextrix]

So informative and enjoyable! Will share this with my HS Latin students, who enjoy reading Martial's poem about his friend's puppy, named Issa (Book I, epigram 101).

[@myinnermagpie]

France, Germany, and Italy (in my experience) are very good to their dogs. Spain and Mexico haven’t seem to be as accommodating.