Thus spoke the gods. How the Greeks and Romans thought about their myths.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 23248 |
| Format | 16 x 23 |
| Détails | 360 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251451541 |
A treasure for eternity, the mythology of the Greeks and Romans belongs to us. These tales from the dawn of time live in our dreams, animate our innermost beings. Readings continue to be added to readings, critiques to explanations, deconstructions to deconstructions. We never cease to receive and appropriate this mythology and always ask ourselves what its deep meaning is, it which touches us, troubles us and moves us intimately. Greeks and Romans asked themselves the same question. Poets, writers, artists, historians, philosophers, theologians of Antiquity have left us works - always powerful and luminous - which continue to swell a rising tide of knowledge, reflections, ideas, interpretations as brilliant as they are singular, as astonishing as they are convincing, dazzling and yet so often misunderstood. This book gives them a voice and shares the joy of a discovery that is ultimately infinite. Without conceding anything to the vertigo of ethnological distance, he shows that the mythical stories of Antiquity accommodate a proximity that is today forgotten, perhaps lost, but possible, and marvelous.
A treasure for eternity, the mythology of the Greeks and Romans belongs to us. These tales from the dawn of time live in our dreams, animate our innermost beings. Readings continue to be added to readings, critiques to explanations, deconstructions to deconstructions. We never cease to receive and appropriate this mythology and always ask ourselves what its deep meaning is, it which touches us, troubles us and moves us intimately. Greeks and Romans asked themselves the same question. Poets, writers, artists, historians, philosophers, theologians of Antiquity have left us works - always powerful and luminous - which continue to swell a rising tide of knowledge, reflections, ideas, interpretations as brilliant as they are singular, as astonishing as they are convincing, dazzling and yet so often misunderstood. This book gives them a voice and shares the joy of a discovery that is ultimately infinite. Without conceding anything to the vertigo of ethnological distance, he shows that the mythical stories of Antiquity accommodate a proximity that is today forgotten, perhaps lost, but possible, and marvelous.