Panotti of the Big Ears #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures. I hope you enjoy following along!

Panotti of the Big Ears

This legend comes from the ancient encyclopedic works “Natural History of both the real and the imaginative,” published by Pliny the Elder in AD 77-79 (Yep, it’s that old).It’s one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire.

Pliny writes about the strange race of people known as the Panotti who live in the “All-Ears Islands” off of S...