kallistoi:fictorvm:Floor mosaic, 4th century CE, from a Roman villa near Mérida, Spain.The Ancient R
kallistoi:fictorvm:Floor mosaic, 4th century CE, from a Roman villa near Mérida, Spain.The Ancient Romans left behind many more representations of boar hunting than the Ancient Greeks in both literature and art. Hunting became popular among young Romans starting from the third century BC. Hunting was seen as a way of fortifying character and exercising physical vigour. The boar was known as aper, feri sues or singularis on account of the animals supposedly solitary habits.[image description: a photo of a mosaic. the center panel shows a man stabbing a boar with a hunting spear against a sparse wooded background.] -- source link
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