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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: DBS on Apr 23, 2025, 07:04 PM

Title: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: DBS on Apr 23, 2025, 07:04 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8v2063r19o

"Greebo's grin gradually faded, until there was nothing left but the cat. This was nearly as spooky as the opposite way around."
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: Imperial Dave on Apr 23, 2025, 07:55 PM
 :o
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: Ian61 on Apr 23, 2025, 08:50 PM
And the lion must have been at York.  :o
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: Nick Harbud on Apr 24, 2025, 07:08 AM
I have seen cat owners with similar wounds, generally received after trying to persuade their pets to take some unpleasant medicine or other attempts at imposing their will on their recalcitrant moggies.

 :P
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: Imperial Dave on Apr 24, 2025, 07:16 AM
pretty much 99% of all cats...
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: Nick Harbud on Apr 24, 2025, 01:23 PM
Quite so.  One cannot understand anyone wishing to keep such vicious animals as pets when their only benefit is either for lining a coat or as guitar strings.

 :P
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: DBS on Apr 24, 2025, 02:31 PM
Quote from: Nick Harbud on Apr 24, 2025, 01:23 PMeither for lining a coat

Much as I love Ammianus, I always thought by far the least credible of his claims was that the Huns wore coats made from field mice skins (dutifully repeated by P Barker Esq).  You would need several cats to line a coat, let alone a kaftan, unless just aiming for collar and cuffs.  How many field mice would one need?  Who on earth would look at a field mouse and think that was the solution to their winter clothing challenge, now I just have to find a couple of hundred more...?
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: Imperial Dave on Apr 24, 2025, 05:13 PM
That....is a separate thread  ;D
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: Andreas Johansson on Apr 25, 2025, 04:07 AM
Quote from: DBS on Apr 24, 2025, 02:31 PM
Quote from: Nick Harbud on Apr 24, 2025, 01:23 PMeither for lining a coat

Much as I love Ammianus, I always thought by far the least credible of his claims was that the Huns wore coats made from field mice skins (dutifully repeated by P Barker Esq).  You would need several cats to line a coat, let alone a kaftan, unless just aiming for collar and cuffs.  How many field mice would one need?  Who on earth would look at a field mouse and think that was the solution to their winter clothing challenge, now I just have to find a couple of hundred more...?



There was a subthread about Hunnic fur clothes here:
https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=5812.msg76904#msg76904
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: Imperial Dave on Apr 25, 2025, 04:20 AM
Well spotted!
Title: Re: Gladiator bones show fight with big cat
Post by: DBS on Apr 25, 2025, 07:03 AM
Quote from: Andreas Johansson on Apr 25, 2025, 04:07 AMThere was a subthread about Hunnic fur clothes here
Thank you.  I obviously missed the marmot theory last time around...
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