Les presages imperiaux, d’Auguste a Domitien
by A. Vigourt
Paperback (Published)
(January 2001)
ISBN: 9782701801469
Price: $63.00
On back order
Les signes repertories par les auteurs anciens a propos des premiers princes de Rome ont souvent ete regardes comme des motifs recreatifs dans des uvres litteraires par ailleurs serieuses, ou comme les traces d’une soif un peu puerile de surnaturel. Une reflexion historique permet de considerer pour eux-memes les signes -presages, prodiges- identifies comme tels par les Anciens, de les replacer dans leur contexte, d’essayer de comprendre leur impact sur ceux qui en colportaient les recits et ceux qui en etaient les cibles. Les phenomenes rapportes n’etaient jamais inoffensifs, leur poids put etre decisif dans certains affrontements, beaucoup furent utilises dans diverses conjonctures, et on leur attribua alors des significations variees. Revelateurs d’une proximite et d’une certaine intimite entre hommes et dieux, les recits de faits merveilleux mettent en evidence la complexite des rapports entre public et prive, politique et religion, individus et collectivite.
- By (author) A Vigourt
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