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La mythologie grecque
«Réserve de pensée, le mythe a fini par vivre d'une vie propre, à mi-chemin entre la raison et la foi ou le jeu. En lui a pris sa source toute la méditation des Grecs, et, après eux, celle de leurs lointains héritiers ; c'est à lui que les poètes tragiques demandèrent leurs sujets et les lyriques leurs images. Prométhée, OEdipe, Oreste ont été, d'abord, des héros de légende. Les images d'Achille et d'Ulysse, la folie d'Ajax, indéfiniment reproduites sur les vases : cruches à vin, coupes, récipients de toutes sortes, mêlaient le mythe à la vie quotidienne et le rendaient familier. A la maison comme au théâtre, ses figures sont des compagnes qui imprègnent la pensée, occupent l'imagination, dominent les conceptions morales. Il n'est jusqu'aux philosophes, lorsque le raisonnement a atteint sa limite, qui n'y aient recours comme à un mode de connaissance susceptible de livrer l'inconnaissable.».
132 pages, Paperback
Published March 6, 2013
About the author
Pierre Grimal
171 books40 followersAdmitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1933, and receiving a third in the "Agrégation des lettres" in 1935, he was member of the French School at Rome (1935-1937) then taught Latin at a Rennes lycée. Then he was active as a professor of Roman civilization at the faculties of Caen and Bordeaux, and finally at the Sorbonne for thirty years.
He published studies on the Roman civilization, of which many volumes to the "Que sais-je?" series, and translations of Latin classical authors (Cicero, Seneca the Younger, Tacitus, Plautus, Terence). On his retirement, he also published biographies and fictionalized histories (Mémoires d’Agrippine, le procès Néron), more intended for the general public.
At the end of his life, he campaigned for the safeguarding of literary teaching.
Source
He published studies on the Roman civilization, of which many volumes to the "Que sais-je?" series, and translations of Latin classical authors (Cicero, Seneca the Younger, Tacitus, Plautus, Terence). On his retirement, he also published biographies and fictionalized histories (Mémoires d’Agrippine, le procès Néron), more intended for the general public.
At the end of his life, he campaigned for the safeguarding of literary teaching.
Source
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