Symmaque, Correspondance

Tome II: Livres III-V

edited and translated by Jean-Pierre Callu

Extent: 452 pages

Publisher: Les Belles Lettres

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Collection des universites de France Serie latine

Series volume number: 260

Language: French

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(January 2002)

ISBN: 9782251012629

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Symmaque, senateur romain, fut l’un des derniers representants du paganisme, et son nom reste attache a une fidelite intempestive aux vieilles traditions romaines: quelques annees avant la prise definitive de Rome par Alaric, le senateur invoquait encore les dieux anciens et croyait l’Empire Eternel. Issu de la noblesse, il poursuit sa carriere politique tout en combattant le christianisme et son representant Ambroise, le fameux eveque de Milan. C’est en vain qu’il reclame et le retour a l’ancienne religion, et le retablissement de l’Autel de la Victoire, symbole du paganisme comme religion civile. Tant sur le plan politique que sur le plan religieux, Symmaque fut l’homme des causes perdues. Il n’en etait pas moins un homme de plume: sa correspondance, qui occupe les quatre cinquiemes de son oeuvre, alterne les recits anodins et les plaidoyers vehements. A elle seule, elle constitue de passionnantes chroniques des derniers paiens . Notre edition rassemble en quatre volumes les dix livres de lettres transmises sous le nom de Symmaque. La riche introduction du tome I fait le point des connaissances sur l’auteur en discutant notamment les hypotheses de Stout et de Seeck. Est proposee une reflexion sur le genre epistolaire et sur la langue de cet auteur a l’esprit abondant et au verbe etroit , selon le mot d’Alain de Lille. Des informations sur les destinataires, nombreux et divers, allant de la famille proche a Ausone ou a Eusebe, sont fournies et assurent la bonne intelligence de ces lettres. Des notes, developpees en fin d’ouvrage par des notes complementaires, guident le lecteur dans cette periode historique complexe, riche en vicissitudes, complots et rebondissements. Le tome IV est en outre enrichi d’un Index general.

By (author) Symmaque
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