Flora. Flowers in Antiquity.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 20555 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 322 p., 6 maps, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251446646 |
Belles Lettres "Bookmarks" Collection No. 22. A flower makes spring: the Ancients saw it as the symbol of nature, its beauty and its inexhaustible vitality, its fragility too. At each step of the nymph Flora, an infinite variety of flowers blooms. Great myths are about the rose, the narcissus or the hyacinth flower. Flowers are everywhere. They breathe love, during an abduction in the open field or a wedding ceremony. One could only go to the banquet adorned, crowned, garlanded with flowers to better drink and discuss. Flowers have a thousand uses, are present on a thousand occasions. The language of ancient writers reflects this passion for flowers through the profusion of metaphors and floral images. Some two hundred excerpts from Greek and Latin authors in translation are offered here to the reader eager to tread the ancient meadows. Intoxicated by colors, shapes and scents, he is invited to choose from the flowers in this bouquet those which will make up his own.
Belles Lettres "Bookmarks" Collection No. 22. A flower makes spring: the Ancients saw it as the symbol of nature, its beauty and its inexhaustible vitality, its fragility too. At each step of the nymph Flora, an infinite variety of flowers blooms. Great myths are about the rose, the narcissus or the hyacinth flower. Flowers are everywhere. They breathe love, during an abduction in the open field or a wedding ceremony. One could only go to the banquet adorned, crowned, garlanded with flowers to better drink and discuss. Flowers have a thousand uses, are present on a thousand occasions. The language of ancient writers reflects this passion for flowers through the profusion of metaphors and floral images. Some two hundred excerpts from Greek and Latin authors in translation are offered here to the reader eager to tread the ancient meadows. Intoxicated by colors, shapes and scents, he is invited to choose from the flowers in this bouquet those which will make up his own.