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Many writers focused on cats, showed them in the course of books in the background or as a main character. A good many of these artists were also writers having a passion for the cat tribe in their everyday life
Homère, Plutarque and Virgile have already mentioned cats in their days. In the Middle-Ages, the farces and the fables told stories of cats like the one of Tibert in The novel of Renart.
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The story of cat dated back to ages. However, the domestication of cats is generally attributed to the Egyptians who worshipped them. The pharaonic Egypt considered the cat as a sacred animal, a representative of Bastet, goddess of fecundity and harvests. To kill a cat was a crime often punished by death and when fire broke out, the inhabitants saved the cat…… (Lire la suite…)
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The cat has inspired many artists and authors and this feline is quoted in many proverbs and sayings. Here are some of them chosen among a long list….
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