Leaving for Greece. Why we still need the Ancients.
Flammarion| N° d'inventaire | 21926 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 296 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
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"Ancient Greece is the most beautiful invention of modern times," wrote Paul Valéry. In 1964, Roy Lichtenstein echoed him by presenting The Time of Apollo as an advertising stereotype, an emblem of a postcard Greece. Provocative, the canvas by the master of Pop Art, like Valéry's sentence, invites us to question our relationship with Greece. This heritage, so long placed at the heart of European culture, is made up of multiple journeys towards an object shaped and reshaped over the centuries. What meanings has Greece successively carried, in Rome, in the Middle Ages, during the Renaissance, and since the French Revolution? In what ways has it helped define cultural or national identities, democracy, history? And what meaning can there still be, today, in "leaving for Greece"? François Hartog, through a luminous reflection that takes us from Herodotus to Jean-Pierre Vernant, notably passing through Plutarch, Montaigne or Fustel de Coulanges, allows us to understand the emergence and transformations of this major landmark of Western thought that we call Greece.
"Ancient Greece is the most beautiful invention of modern times," wrote Paul Valéry. In 1964, Roy Lichtenstein echoed him by presenting The Time of Apollo as an advertising stereotype, an emblem of a postcard Greece. Provocative, the canvas by the master of Pop Art, like Valéry's sentence, invites us to question our relationship with Greece. This heritage, so long placed at the heart of European culture, is made up of multiple journeys towards an object shaped and reshaped over the centuries. What meanings has Greece successively carried, in Rome, in the Middle Ages, during the Renaissance, and since the French Revolution? In what ways has it helped define cultural or national identities, democracy, history? And what meaning can there still be, today, in "leaving for Greece"? François Hartog, through a luminous reflection that takes us from Herodotus to Jean-Pierre Vernant, notably passing through Plutarch, Montaigne or Fustel de Coulanges, allows us to understand the emergence and transformations of this major landmark of Western thought that we call Greece.