Roman Beast Hunts
The Ancients
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The Beast Hunts of the Roman Empire
Caroline: What I kind of like to focus on first Caroline, and you highlighted it there during your overview of the beast hunts. So we've got a mixture of quite a few literary accounts, literature, but also coinage. Yeah, the coins are really useful, but we've got inscriptions as well. Sometimes the Roman army were deployed to do this. In Germany, part of the army were called usarii, so usus is Latin for bear. They were let off normal army duties. You're going to go out and hunt for bears. And we've got an inscription of a centurion who had caught 50 bears in six months. So he was a really good
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