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Jacqueline De Romilly,Jacqueline De Romilly
Les auteurs tragiques, en s'interrogeant sur le sens des malheurs qu'ils evoquent, sont appeles a exprimer toute une reflexion sur le temps. Chez les trois grands tragiques grecs, on voit…
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Ecrire un tresor pour l'eternite telle etait l'ambition de Thucydide. Elle fut amplement satisfaite: La Guerre du Peloponnese n'a jamais cesse d'etre lue et reste de nos jours un des…
Jacqueline de Romilly (College de France)
Toute connaissance s'eclaire par la comparaison. En particulier, toute oeuvre litteraire se comprend d'autant mieux que l'on peut la situer plus rigoureusement par rapport a celles qui l'ont precedee et…
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This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of…
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Jacqueline de Romilly
An introduction to the Sophistic movement of 5th-century Athens and a reinterpretation of the goals and effects of their thought. The text explores the ideas of Socrates, the Sophists and…
Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.
En composant La Guerre du Peloponnese, l'historien athenien Thucydide n'entendait pas seulement faire le recit du conflit qui, de 431 a 404 avant notre ere, avait oppose les deux plus…
This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450-404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and…
Monique Trede-Boulmer
English summary: The Greek word kairos refers to a neurologic place within the body during the time of Homer. How then did it come to signify time in modern Greek…
First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War highlights the power and sophistication…
