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Ce livre est juste en train de casser tous les mythes et de mettre à la poubelle tous mes cours de fac sur les Romains :'(

The term 'authority' has many meanings over a ranges of disciplines, but in this book it is used to refer to literary authority, the rhetorical means by which the ancient historians claims the competence to narrate and explain the past, and simultaneously contructs a persona that the audience will find persuasive and believable.

So far it is the best biography I ever read!!

As far as the use is concerned, despite the association of Demeter with poppies in art and iconography, there are no references that would connectit to the Mysteries. [...] The Greej did not consider the use of opium a taboo, and there is no reason for which it would not have been listed, along with pennyroryal, as one of the ingredients of the Eleusinian kykeon.

It is wrong, however, to define Mystery Cults only on terms of their secrecy : secrecy was a characteristic of several other, non-mystic cults, but it was the initiation that made a cult what we call today a Mystery Cult.

[In the Theogony], the present os represent as that which is visible, while the past and the future linger under the cover of darkness or ground.

The Theogony deals not with the limited range of human time, but rather with the expansive and conflicting temporalities of divine mythology.

Chapter on Babylone is great^^

So far, it isn't very interesting, too much theory...

"And now 'twas like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute;
And now it is an angel's song
That makes the heavens be mute."
The Rime of an ancyant marinere

La désobéissance civile peut [..] être définie comme une acte public, non violent, décidé en conscience, mais politique, contraire à la loi et accompli le plus souvent pour amener un changement dans la loi ou bien dans la politique du gouvernement. En agissant ainsi, on s'adresse au sens de la justice de la majorité de la communauté [...]