(July 2, 2015 at 4:05 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(July 2, 2015 at 3:07 am)Razzle Wrote: Then why were unicorns, not rhinoceruses, depicted in Christian art? The Latin was clearly mistranslated into the English of the time.
The Romans and other ancients were very familiar with all kinds of exotic animals but the Western Europeans were ignorant of most of them. The English didn't believe that such creatures as giraffes didn't exist until they saw their first one in 1827. http://lisawallerrogers.com/2009/02/18/k...s-giraffe/ The Romans ate giraffes in Pompei.