Mendiants et mendicité dans la littérature grecque archaïque et classique

Extent: 524 pages

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Lettres Orientales et Classiques

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(October 2026)

ISBN: 9789042954564

Price: $80.00

PDF (Published)

(October 2026)

ISBN: 9789042954571

Price: $100.00

Synopsis

Ulysse, Oedipe, Antigone, autant de mendiants dans les épopées et les pièces du théâtre grec. Mais pourquoi autant de marginaux dans des oeuvres récitées ou mises en scène lors de fêtes à la forte connotation civique? Ce livre tente de répondre à la question. Quatre familles de mots servent de point de départ à cette étude: ptôchos «le mendiant», agurtês «le prêtre mendiant», alêtês «vagabond», planês «le rôdeur» et la triade epaitês, prosaitês, metaitês «le quémandeur». Or, par sa dimension pragmatique, la poésie grecque reste liée à son contexte d’origine, en traitant toujours de problématiques sociales qui lui sont contemporaines. Notre travail se propose d’étudier dans quelle mesure les représentations littéraires et esthétiques de la mendicité sont investies d’une fonction sociale. Notre livre adopte trois perspectives méthodologiques: une étude lexicale de la mendicité examinant les jeux de synonymie et les connotations, un examen des fonctions littéraires et dramatiques du personnage, tantôt catalyseur de l’action, tantôt vecteur d’émotions, et une analyse sur son rôle argumentatif dans les réflexions politiques et morales sur la pauvreté au IVe siècle. Le motif de la mendicité permet aux Grecs d’envisager un certain type d’exclusion civique, et en contrepoint, d’appréhender la nature du lien social. Une étude chronologique montre que ce personnage, initialement contre modèle du parfait citoyen, devient aux moments de grands bouleversements économiques un personnage attachant, permettant à la cité de réintégrer symboliquement les pauvres et de prôner indirectement la solidarité collective.

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