RELATIONSHIP OCTOPUS TO HUMAN

In Literature

 (ARTIFACT)

·         In literature field, octopuses were use as a symbolism because it was one of the ocean residences especially in Europe and Mediterranean. Some artifact found with octopuses image and story and artwork. For example, a stone carving found in the archaeological recovery from Bronze Age Minoan Crete at Knossos has a depiction of a fisherman carrying an octopus.

Vase from a Mycenaean Greek cemetery at Prosymna, Argos

Ancient Greek black-figure amphora, 530–520 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany

Moche Octopus (200 AD), Larco Museum Collection, Lima, Peru

(BOOK)

·         The octopus has a significant role in Victor Hugo's book Travailleurs de la mer (Toilers of the Sea)

·         Victor Hugo is French author and the novel was first published in Brussels in 1866.

Cover book of Travailleurs de la mer

• The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey.
• In the story, the main character has, Gilliatt to battle with an octopus to get marry. 

Image from the book