Did the ancient Greeks keep dogs as pets?
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August 13th, 2017
And if they did, did they teach them tricks like shake and roll over?
Did they sleep in the same room with them?
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Well, there are depictions of dogs on their art as shown here so the chances are that they did keep them and train them. Don’t know about shake and roll over but probably hunting and guarding.
Most things are all Greek to me, not only but also:
The Sea Peoples, the purported seafaring confederation that attacked ancient Egypt and other regions of the East Mediterranean prior to and during the Late Bronze Age collapse (1200–900 BC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
Naturally the Greeks took with them the dogs of war to defeat the Egyptians who had god on their side, all those cats.
The dogs trounced the cats which is where the dogs learned new tricks from the cats like rolling over and playing dead n such to say nothing of fur ball games which we won’t.
On the way home some ships went adrift out onto the Atlantic beyond Atlantis finally coming ashore in the Canaries, and as they had no cats to set among the pigeons they decided to change the meaning of Canary to the Isle of Dogs instead as a tribute to man’s best friend and first mate who barked out the news of land ho upon noticing the non-migratory birds..
Man was , by this time, largely domesticated so the dogs let them stay.
Yes. The oldest work of Western literature (Homer’s epics) conspicuously features (at the end) at least one domestic dog, belonging to Odysseus.
I don’t know what tricks they taught or where they slept.
I heard some things that ancient dogs kept the Greeks as pets. Then one day in 350 B.C. the highly-revered Greek leader Syphilis led an army which conquered the dogs, imprisoned them, and one-by-one killed, cooked and ate their remains, which were tastefully sprinkled on top of lettuce, tomato, and feta cheese.
We of course know this today as a ‘Greek salad’.
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