Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome . By George Jennison. (Publications of the University of Manchester, No. 258.) Pp. xiv + 209 + 8 plates.

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Paul Roberts, Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments, Thames & Hudson, 256pp, 185 colour illustrations, £30 (hb), published 18 April Maev Kennedy is a freelance arts and archaeology journalist and a ...