As a way of researching ancient Greek life, I've been compiling a list of common nouns mentioned in classical literature.
Here are some interesting ones:
leopard
midwife beetle (followed pregnant eagles to steal the eggs)
omlette
watchdog
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You really are whetting my appetite to delve into the classics! Midwife beetles! And I wonder why leopards? I would have thought they were exclusively an African animal ...
Apparently ancient Europe was rife with wildlife -- lions, bears, wolves, leopards...
And Greece at one point was bristling with trees -- it was deforested to become the desert it is today.
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