The Most Beautiful Love Stories of Antiquity. From Heaven to Earth, from Zeus to Caesar.
Albin Michel| N° d'inventaire | 22102 |
| Format | 14.5 x 22.5 |
| Détails | 199 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782226443847 |
Do emotions have a history? Is love an immutable feeling? To answer this question, Eva Cantarella invites us to return to the Greeks and Romans, our ancestors both near and far. This picturesque depiction of the customs of the Ancients brings to life the most famous lovers of Greek mythology: Orpheus and Eurydice, Ariadne and Theseus, Medea and Jason, not to mention the countless extramarital affairs of Zeus, the first sexual predator. It also gives us the opportunity to share the intimacy of equally illustrious but very real characters who left their mark on Roman history: Cato and Marcia, Lucrezia and Collatinus, Livia and Augustus, not to mention Caesar, the seducer par excellence, "the husband of all women and the wife of all husbands." In the light of myth and history, Eva Cantarella highlights the similarities but also the differences in the way of conceiving and experiencing, from one society to another and from Antiquity to the present day, a feeling as complex as love.
Do emotions have a history? Is love an immutable feeling? To answer this question, Eva Cantarella invites us to return to the Greeks and Romans, our ancestors both near and far. This picturesque depiction of the customs of the Ancients brings to life the most famous lovers of Greek mythology: Orpheus and Eurydice, Ariadne and Theseus, Medea and Jason, not to mention the countless extramarital affairs of Zeus, the first sexual predator. It also gives us the opportunity to share the intimacy of equally illustrious but very real characters who left their mark on Roman history: Cato and Marcia, Lucrezia and Collatinus, Livia and Augustus, not to mention Caesar, the seducer par excellence, "the husband of all women and the wife of all husbands." In the light of myth and history, Eva Cantarella highlights the similarities but also the differences in the way of conceiving and experiencing, from one society to another and from Antiquity to the present day, a feeling as complex as love.