Classicists Name Their Pets
People who study Ancient Greece and Rome professionally (AKA Classicists) aren’t just in it for the money and the easy hours. For the vast majority of us, our interest in classical antiquity borders on the obsessive. As a result, we often find that our professional and personal lives entwine, as tends to happen when you devote yourself to “doing what you love and loving what you do.” This classics love manifests in lots of ways: classically-themed baked goods, suitcases of books that join family vacations, museum-based weddings — and classically-named pets. If a classicist owns a pet, by my calculations there is a greater than 50% chance that the pet’s name will be related in some way to classical antiquity.
But you don’t have to take my word for it …
