Here is a very short but informative and witty video about a funerary inscription for a dog. It’s an intensely human story which made me feel a spark of a connection with our Roman forbears. 9 mins of fun in the tail end of an endless gloomy London lockdown.
Thankyou for sharing this video I absolutely loved it.
It seems strange but what has always fascinated me is thinking about the idea that the past was filled with people like us doing very normal things that we would do today. Mourning the death of a dog, as the video shows. It creates a connection to a place and time 2000 years that in many ways was radically different from the world today, and in many ways is very much similar to today. For me at least, that idea is often forgotten when looking back on history, generally.
Kind of hard to explain, but again thanks for the video link, I found it very fascinating.