With this very useful and informative book Maja Miziur-Moździoch offers an excellent example of the new avenues for research within the quite active field of animal studies.[1] The subject matter concerns the astonishing pompē (“procession”, “pageant”) arranged and organized by Ptolemy II Soter at a date somewhere between 279 and 278 B.C. (44-47), and its … Continue reading ‘Ptolemy’s zoo’: exotic animals in third-century BC Egypt