Agathias wrote the first poem about a cat in history. Born in 530AD in Asia Minor, in today’s Turkey, he was known as a poet and a historian of the reign of the Byzantine Roman emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558. In this poem written in 550AD Agathias mentions a ravenous cat attacking one of his beloved […]
Cat Poems – Agathias 550AD
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