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"la cigale que l’on porte fixée dans les cheveux sous la forme d’un bijou d’or (c’est la « tettigophorie ») est également un symbole d’autochtonie, un signe d’appartenance à une communauté ionienne et athénienne."
books.openedition.org/pur/1202
#Motdujour #animhist
" Ancient Athenians wore golden cicadas in their hair because cicadas were musical and sacred to Apollo (Aristophanes, Clouds, 984)."
biddr.com/auctions/concordianu

Goldfish in the parlour: the Victorian craze for marine life
"the book intersects with histories of gender, of humanitarianism, and the Victorian inclination to succumb to cultural ‘crazes’ (like the ‘natural history craze’, as studied by John M. Mackenzie, and ‘Hippomania’, about which Simons and others have written in recent years)." #animhist
sydneyuniversitypress.com/prod
review from: euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.

Un joli exemple de "persistance rétinienne" un peu ratée des images animales :

En 1567 est publié le livre de fables animales "De warachtighe fabulen der dieren" d'Eduard de Dene, illustré par le formidable Marcus Gheeraerts.
La fable de "la fourmi et du criquet" est illustrée par une multitude de petites fourmis et une sauterelle à seulement quatre pattes.
dbnl.org/tekst/dene001wara01_0

En 1586, un livre plus petit (in-16) est publié à Lyon sous le titre : "La description philosophale de la nature & condition des animaux , tant raisonnables que bruts".
Le poème sur les fourmis, qui ne parlent pourtant que d'elles, est illustrée d'une copie fort fruste de Gheeraerts, qui ne garde... que la sauterelle.
#animhist #histnat
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6

"The American city of Enterprise, in the southern state of Alabama, boasts a [rare monument to an insect]. It has what the city's website describes as, external "the world's only monument to an agricultural pest" - the boll weevil. The statue of a woman holding a giant beetle aloft was erected in 1919 "in profound appreciation" of the havoc wrought by the boll weevil on the area's cotton fields. Abandoning cotton production, farmers turned to other crops and the town promptly prospered."
#animhist
via bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-e
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_Wee
Image : todayinhistory.blog/2021/12/11