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Lion Species In Classical Times


Ludovicus

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For those of us interested in the fauna of ancient Greece and Rome here's an interesting article on the species of lions the ancients would have been familiar with. Seems that the lion preferred by the Romans for spectacles in the arena was the Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo).

 

http://www.pothos.org/alexander.asp?paraID...amp;title=Lions

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