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Greek myths in Roman art and culture : imagery, values and identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250
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ISBN: 1316722406 1316723003 1316723607 1316726002 1316724204 1316725405 1139680382 1107072247 1107420733 1316718808 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of Greek myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It argues that myths, in addition to functioning as signifiers of a patron's education or paideia, played an important role as rhetorical and didactic exempla. The changing use of mythological imagery in domestic and funerary art in particular reveals an important shift in Roman values and senses of identity across the period of the first two centuries AD, and in the ways that Greek culture was turned to serve Roman values.


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Protée en trompe-l'œil : Genèse et survivances d'un mythe, d'Homère à Bouchardon

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Varius, multiplex, multiformis : cette série d’épithètes dont le pseudo-Aurélius Victor se servait pour qualifier l’empereur Hadrien conviendrait à merveille à Protée, figure quelque peu en retrait du panthéon grec, mais néanmoins complexe, ambiguë et mystérieuse. Présenté par les auteurs antiques comme un dieu ou un mortel, un roi héroïsé d’Egypte ou un devin, Protée est sans doute le plus connu des « Vieillards de la Mer ». Lié aux récits du retour de Ménélas après la guerre de Troie et à l’histoire du berger Aristée qui perdit ses abeilles, il a connu, grâce à Homère et Virgile en particulier, un succès continu depuis l’Antiquité et son nom n’a cessé d’inspirer œuvres littéraires, plastiques ou musicales. Ses aptitudes et les modalités qui conditionnent son approche sont fascinantes : pour que Protée révèle « ce qui est, ce qui fut, et ce qui sera », son interlocuteur doit ruser pour s’emparer de lui, attendre, caché, le moment où le dieu relâchera son attention sous l’effet du sommeil. Même pris dans les liens, il continue de se dérober par mille métamorphoses, comme pour mettre à l’épreuve la patience et la ténacité du héros venu le consulter et mesurer l’intensité du désir qu’il a de connaître le vrai. Protée incarne ainsi le paradoxe d’un univers inquiétant, labile, changeant, « protéiforme », qui se place sous le signe de la transformation, de la ruse et de l’illusion, mais aussi de la vérité prophétique dont l’homme en quête de sagesse doit s’emparer dans la violence et par la contrainte. Image de la matière informée par les idées, visage ambigu d’une humanité plurielle ou voix des aspirations démiurgiques du texte littéraire qui nourrit le dessein secret de restituer la totalité du monde, il a suscité maintes lectures allégoriques et interprétatives. Le présent volume rassemble des contributions qui s’échelonnent de l’Antiquité grecque archaïque à la Renaissance, avec un prolongement jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle français, et espère éclairer les étapes de la…


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Ancient Greek myth in world fiction since 1989
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ISBN: 1472579372 1472579380 1474256279 1472579399 1472579402 9781472579409 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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"Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. This volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns. Featuring contributions by an international group of scholars from a number of disciplines, the volume offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary literature from around the world. Analysing a range of significant authors and works, not usually brought together in one place, the book introduces readers to some less-familiar fiction, while demonstrating the central place that classical literature can claim in the global literary curriculum of the third millennium. The modern fiction covered is as varied as the acclaimed North American television series The Wire, contemporary Arab fiction, the Japanese novels of Haruki Murakami and the works of New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, Witi Ihimaera. This book explores the diverse ways that ancient Greek myth has been used in fiction internationally since 1989. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. Yet their engagement with it has been by no means homogeneous, and this volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns. While Greek myth and literature were key constituents in nineteenth-century realist and early twentieth-century modernist fiction, they faded in significance mid-century, at a time when V.S. Pritchett warned that the novel as a form would be inadequate to the cultural 'processing' of recent atrocities. However, the creative energies released by the end of the Cold War, the rise of the postcolonial novel, and the terrible recent conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa, which the collapse of the Soviet Union helped to engender, contributed to a remarkable renaissance of significant fiction which engaged once more with the Greeks. By drawing out this dimension, the volume challenges the conventional categorisation of works of fiction according to national tradition, even while the geographical range of the book includes works by Brazilian, French, German, Japanese, Indian, North American, Maori, African, Russian, Greek, Irish, and Arabic writers."--Bloomsbury Publishing Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. This volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns. Featuring contributions by an international group of scholars from a number of disciplines, the volume offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary literature from around the world. Analysing a range of significant authors and works, not usually brought together in one place, the book introduces readers to some less-familiar fiction, while demonstrating the central place that classical literature can claim in the global literary curriculum of the third millennium. The modern fiction covered is as varied as the acclaimed North American television series The Wire, contemporary Arab fiction, the Japanese novels of Haruki Murakami and the works of New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, Witi Ihimaera


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Les dieux olympiens et la mer : espaces et pratiques cultuelles
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ISBN: 9782728310654 2728310653 2728310661 Year: 2016 Volume: 509 Publisher: Roma : École française de Rome,

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Si l'affirmation selon laquelle les Grecs sont un peuple de marins peut être nuancée, il est cependant indéniable que la mer représente un aspect géographique majeur du monde grec antique. Il n'est donc guère surprenant que cet élément ait imprégné les croyances et les cultes, et ce depuis l'Atlantique jusqu'au golfe Persique et particulièrement en Grande Grèce. Cet ouvrage explore ainsi les manières dont la culture maritime a influé sur les figures majeures du panthéon grec, les divinités olympiennes, depuis Homère jusqu'à la fin de l'époque hellénistique. Il tempère à cet égard l'importance accordée trop souvent a priori à Poséidon. Toutes les sources ont été requises dans une telle enquête : littéraires, épigraphiques, archéologiques, iconographiques, numismatiques. Par l'analyse des croyances, de la topographie des sanctuaires, des pratiques cultuelles tant à bord qu'à terre et des ex-voto maritimes (ancres et bateaux), il constitue un outil indispensable pour l'étude de la religion grecque comme pour celle de l'archéologie navale.

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