this is an ongoing fascination of mine and i thought i could maybe drum up some new sources here but i am particularly fascinated about the history of modern snake keeping - which seems to extend to about 40-50 years in the sense of popular keeping of snakes within human society but i am also interested in finding earlier examples of the keeping of snakes whether it be private zoologists, private zoos, or who knows maybe even ancient rulers or something but if you have any sources on the keeping of snakes both in the modern sense and prior to the last 50 years most especially please post!