Life of Antoine.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 19161 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 290 p., 3 maps, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251802312 |
Classic bilingual collection. "A great impressionable and misguided nature, presented as an "anti-model" by his ancient biographer, "the last Prince of the East," according to one of his modern biographers, Antony inspired Plutarch to write the richest and most fascinating Life, which has never ceased, from Shakespeare to Mankiewicz, to haunt the Western imagination. Built at first, like the Life of his consort, Demetrius, on a simple alternation of brilliant military actions and scandalous lapses, it experiences, in its reality as in its writing, a decisive turning point with the spectacular and symbolic arrival of Cleopatra on Cydnos which draws the crowds and leaves Antony alone on his tribunal. Then the space polarizes, between the West soon embodied in Octavia and the East of "the Egyptian," with Athens as a possible place of salvation; then time and self-control escape the obsessed lover. Vanquished by History, enslaved to a woman, he undergoes yet another final metamorphosis and, escaping the damnatio memoriae, enters into myth with the one he loves and who loves him to form the sublime couple of the Queen and the Roman, forever united in death.
Classic bilingual collection. "A great impressionable and misguided nature, presented as an "anti-model" by his ancient biographer, "the last Prince of the East," according to one of his modern biographers, Antony inspired Plutarch to write the richest and most fascinating Life, which has never ceased, from Shakespeare to Mankiewicz, to haunt the Western imagination. Built at first, like the Life of his consort, Demetrius, on a simple alternation of brilliant military actions and scandalous lapses, it experiences, in its reality as in its writing, a decisive turning point with the spectacular and symbolic arrival of Cleopatra on Cydnos which draws the crowds and leaves Antony alone on his tribunal. Then the space polarizes, between the West soon embodied in Octavia and the East of "the Egyptian," with Athens as a possible place of salvation; then time and self-control escape the obsessed lover. Vanquished by History, enslaved to a woman, he undergoes yet another final metamorphosis and, escaping the damnatio memoriae, enters into myth with the one he loves and who loves him to form the sublime couple of the Queen and the Roman, forever united in death.