L’autruche est-elle un oiseau? Mise au point sur quelques tentatives de classification d’un animal hybride chez les auteurs antiques et médiévaux

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AEVUM - 2018 - 2

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L’autruche est-elle un oiseau? Mise au point sur quelques tentatives de classification d’un animal hybride chez les auteurs antiques et médiévaux

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Christine Silvi

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Vita e Pensiero

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12-2018

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10.26350/000193_000017

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0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

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Since the first descriptions of the ostrich, this weird creature – cloven-hoofed like a camel, with a neck sprinkled with hairs and feathers unfit to fly – did not fail to cause astonishment. A hybrid being with undecided limits, one that can be also considered as a kind of crossing point between terrestrial beasts and birds, this animal is as embarrassing to name as to categorize. That the ostrich belongs to two genders gives it a status of its own, and the paper will examine what antique authors say about this – be they historians, geographers, rhetoricians or poets. The paper will then study what aspects of antique thought were kept and reproduced by medieval scholars, authors of moralized bestiaries and doxograph encyclopedists.