Ideal mythological library.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 22276 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19.5 |
| Détails | 624 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251450223 |
Mythology is an infinite sky; its stars, of which no one knows whether they are dead or alive, continue to enlighten us and make us dream. Mythology occupies entire sections of our imagination and entire shelves of libraries. The originality of our Ideal Library is to give the reader direct access to this magical moment when men, the Greeks and the Romans, appropriated their myths, the words of the Muses, by writing them down, embodying them in texts, transforming them into works of art, their own, which gradually became ours. The texts gathered here are all founding, whether they were sublimated by the giants of poetry such as Homer, Virgil, Ovid, or composed by the learned little hands of mythology, the mythographers. Above all, the reader will discover prominently in this Library the astonishing pages, little known but often superb, where historians, philosophers, theologians of Antiquity, question and sometimes answer on the origin and the meaning of these stories from the dawn of time. Part One THE WONDERFUL STORIES OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN GODS HESIOD To the Muses Castration of Ouranos and Birth of the Olympians Myth of Pandora The Myth of Races Justice HOMER Dios Apaté Circe, the Sirens and Other Sea Monsters To Aphrodite THEOCRITUS The Cyclops in Love CALLIMACHUS Hymn to Apollo Hymn for the Bath of Pallas APOLLONIUS Epiphany of the Libyan Heroines PLAUTUS An Open Secret LUCILIUS JUNIOR Lies about Etna The Legend of the Pious Brothers DIODORUS OF SICILY Heracles Demeter & Kore CATULLUS The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus Story of Theseus and Ariadne LIVY The Twins, the She-Wolf and the Birth of Rome Cacus Rape of the Sabine Women – End of Romulus VIRGIL The Trojan Horse The Disappearance of the Bees. Orpheus and Eurydice HYGIN THE FABULIST & HYGIN THE SCIENTIST Actaeon Diana Astronomy Some astrological signs OVID Apollo & Daphne Narcissus & Echo Baucis & Philemon Galatea & Pygmalion Pomona & Vertumnus ANTONINUS LIBERALIS Lamia or Sybaris Cycnos or Swan Lake APULEIUS A soul in love LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA The judgment of the goddesses CLAUDIAN Plucked in the prime of life ARGONAUTICA ORPHICS The Golden Fleece Orpheus charming the Sirens nonNOS OF PANOPOLIS The tears of Dionysus Metamorphosis of Ampelos and birth of the vine Part Two WHAT IF MYTHOLOGY MEANT SOMETHING? PLATO Lying Fables A Walk in the Ilissos The Myth of Aristophanes The Myth of the Birth of Eros The Myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus The Myth of the Politician The Myth of Er The Flood Atlantis The Demiurge and the Making of the World HERMES TRISMEGISTES The Baptism of the Intellect The Old Age of the World The Human Condition CICERO Diversity of Representations of the Gods: Stoics and Epicureans The Origin of the Gods: Divinizing What is Good or Useful Physical Explanation Heaven, Saturn and Jupiter Explanation by Etymology Juno, Neptune and Others LUCRETIUS Religion Infernal Punishments Jupiter and Lightning DIONYUS OF HALICARNASSU Myths Respectful of the Gods DION CHRYSOSTOM Myth and Poetry: Imperfect Examples of Mysteries The True Initiatory Vision Is That of the World Around Us PLUTARCH Immorality of Poets? The Mysteries of Egypt Interpretations Good and Evil Isis, Osiris, Typhon, Horus On the Side of Hecate's Abyss NUMENIUS The Gates of Heaven and Hell PAUSANIAS Mourning for Demeter AELIUS ARISTIDES Stories of Geese and Other Apparitions MAXIMUS OF TYRE Myths, Told by Poets and Myths Told by Philosophers CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA What the Greeks Owe to the Hebrews Ceres, Kore, Bacchus TERTULLIAN Saturn is No More a God Than He Is Time CHALDAIC ORACLES The World, Enemy of Light HIPPOLYTUS OF ROME The Earthly Paradise ORIGEN Moses, Hesiod and Homer Plato and Moses PLOTINUS Narcissus and Ulysses The Birth of Cupid PORPHYRY The Cave of the Nymphs LACTANCE Euhemerism The Phoenix IAMBLICH In the intimacy of the gods There are two kinds of worship Nature is a temple PSEUDO-CLEMENTINE ROMAN Orphic theogony Condemnation of allegory EUSEBIUS Origin of Greek myths Greek myths Plato's condemnation of allegory On the physical theology of the Greeks SALUSTIOUS Usefulness of myths The various kinds of myths Interpretation of these myths FIRMICUS MATERNUS The Phrygian cult of the earth The Mysteries of Bacchus Proserpina and the Mysteries of Eleusis THE EMPEROR JULIAN Freedom of thought in teaching Hellenism Fleeing innovation in all things The invention of myths Improbability The arrival of the Great Mother Invocation The Sun King AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The tripartite mythology of Varro MACROBIUS Literature and philosophy. The various kinds of myths Celestial harmony The two deaths Interpretations PROCLUS The laughter of the gods and the lameness of Hephaestus The four modes of exposition of the divine Plato's myths Bonds and mutilations The reign of Cronus FULGENTIUS The shipwreck of Aeneas Cupid and Psyche INDEX OF MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES
Mythology is an infinite sky; its stars, of which no one knows whether they are dead or alive, continue to enlighten us and make us dream. Mythology occupies entire sections of our imagination and entire shelves of libraries. The originality of our Ideal Library is to give the reader direct access to this magical moment when men, the Greeks and the Romans, appropriated their myths, the words of the Muses, by writing them down, embodying them in texts, transforming them into works of art, their own, which gradually became ours. The texts gathered here are all founding, whether they were sublimated by the giants of poetry such as Homer, Virgil, Ovid, or composed by the learned little hands of mythology, the mythographers. Above all, the reader will discover prominently in this Library the astonishing pages, little known but often superb, where historians, philosophers, theologians of Antiquity, question and sometimes answer on the origin and the meaning of these stories from the dawn of time. Part One THE WONDERFUL STORIES OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN GODS HESIOD To the Muses Castration of Ouranos and Birth of the Olympians Myth of Pandora The Myth of Races Justice HOMER Dios Apaté Circe, the Sirens and Other Sea Monsters To Aphrodite THEOCRITUS The Cyclops in Love CALLIMACHUS Hymn to Apollo Hymn for the Bath of Pallas APOLLONIUS Epiphany of the Libyan Heroines PLAUTUS An Open Secret LUCILIUS JUNIOR Lies about Etna The Legend of the Pious Brothers DIODORUS OF SICILY Heracles Demeter & Kore CATULLUS The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus Story of Theseus and Ariadne LIVY The Twins, the She-Wolf and the Birth of Rome Cacus Rape of the Sabine Women – End of Romulus VIRGIL The Trojan Horse The Disappearance of the Bees. Orpheus and Eurydice HYGIN THE FABULIST & HYGIN THE SCIENTIST Actaeon Diana Astronomy Some astrological signs OVID Apollo & Daphne Narcissus & Echo Baucis & Philemon Galatea & Pygmalion Pomona & Vertumnus ANTONINUS LIBERALIS Lamia or Sybaris Cycnos or Swan Lake APULEIUS A soul in love LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA The judgment of the goddesses CLAUDIAN Plucked in the prime of life ARGONAUTICA ORPHICS The Golden Fleece Orpheus charming the Sirens nonNOS OF PANOPOLIS The tears of Dionysus Metamorphosis of Ampelos and birth of the vine Part Two WHAT IF MYTHOLOGY MEANT SOMETHING? PLATO Lying Fables A Walk in the Ilissos The Myth of Aristophanes The Myth of the Birth of Eros The Myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus The Myth of the Politician The Myth of Er The Flood Atlantis The Demiurge and the Making of the World HERMES TRISMEGISTES The Baptism of the Intellect The Old Age of the World The Human Condition CICERO Diversity of Representations of the Gods: Stoics and Epicureans The Origin of the Gods: Divinizing What is Good or Useful Physical Explanation Heaven, Saturn and Jupiter Explanation by Etymology Juno, Neptune and Others LUCRETIUS Religion Infernal Punishments Jupiter and Lightning DIONYUS OF HALICARNASSU Myths Respectful of the Gods DION CHRYSOSTOM Myth and Poetry: Imperfect Examples of Mysteries The True Initiatory Vision Is That of the World Around Us PLUTARCH Immorality of Poets? The Mysteries of Egypt Interpretations Good and Evil Isis, Osiris, Typhon, Horus On the Side of Hecate's Abyss NUMENIUS The Gates of Heaven and Hell PAUSANIAS Mourning for Demeter AELIUS ARISTIDES Stories of Geese and Other Apparitions MAXIMUS OF TYRE Myths, Told by Poets and Myths Told by Philosophers CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA What the Greeks Owe to the Hebrews Ceres, Kore, Bacchus TERTULLIAN Saturn is No More a God Than He Is Time CHALDAIC ORACLES The World, Enemy of Light HIPPOLYTUS OF ROME The Earthly Paradise ORIGEN Moses, Hesiod and Homer Plato and Moses PLOTINUS Narcissus and Ulysses The Birth of Cupid PORPHYRY The Cave of the Nymphs LACTANCE Euhemerism The Phoenix IAMBLICH In the intimacy of the gods There are two kinds of worship Nature is a temple PSEUDO-CLEMENTINE ROMAN Orphic theogony Condemnation of allegory EUSEBIUS Origin of Greek myths Greek myths Plato's condemnation of allegory On the physical theology of the Greeks SALUSTIOUS Usefulness of myths The various kinds of myths Interpretation of these myths FIRMICUS MATERNUS The Phrygian cult of the earth The Mysteries of Bacchus Proserpina and the Mysteries of Eleusis THE EMPEROR JULIAN Freedom of thought in teaching Hellenism Fleeing innovation in all things The invention of myths Improbability The arrival of the Great Mother Invocation The Sun King AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The tripartite mythology of Varro MACROBIUS Literature and philosophy. The various kinds of myths Celestial harmony The two deaths Interpretations PROCLUS The laughter of the gods and the lameness of Hephaestus The four modes of exposition of the divine Plato's myths Bonds and mutilations The reign of Cronus FULGENTIUS The shipwreck of Aeneas Cupid and Psyche INDEX OF MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES