Greeks and Romans in the modern world / edited by Roger-Paul Droit.

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Forum Le Monde Le Mans (2nd : 1990). Selections. English [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boulder : Social Science Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1998.
Description
iv, 291 p. ; 23 cm.

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    Selected and translated papers presented at the Forum Le Monde Le Mans held October 29 and 31, 1990, Le Mans, France.
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    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Introduction / Roger-Paul Droit
    • 1. Invisible intermediaries / Remi Brague
    • 2. Could the Romans answer the questions we put to the Greeks? / Jacques Brunschwig
    • 3. Consensus and values : what is a eulogy? / Barbara Cassin
    • 4. Greek political imagery and the modern one / Cornelius Castoriadis
    • 5. Suspended belief / Michel Deguy
    • 6. Political gods / Marcel Detienne
    • 7. The concept of liberty in antiquity and modern times : the French Revolution and antiquity / Francois Hartog
    • 8. When a Roman citizen from Africa wrote : our Hebrew ancestors / Christiane Ingremeau
    • 9. Rome in the Late Empire and the modern trend / Bertrand Lancon
    • 10. Democracy and foreign influence / Nicole Loraux
    • 11. Plato and modern thought / Jean-Francois Mattei
    • 12. Greek rationalism and European mind / Edgar Morin
    • 13. Cicero's philosophical lexicon / Christian Nicolas
    • 14. Georges Dumezil : the political use of the Indo-European pre-history / Maurice Olender
    • 15. On the Greek vision of the human body / Jocelyne Peigney
    • 16. Without the Ancient Greeks Christianity would not be what it is today / Jean Pepin
    • 17. Are the ancients to be called post-modern? / Giulia Sissa
    • 18. Equality in Hellenic and modern days / Emmanuel Terray
    • 19. A Greek invention / Alexandre Tourraix
    • 20. The Greek way of being oneself / Jean-Pierre Vernant
    • 21. Can the renewal of ancient history prepare the coming of another Siècle des lumieres? / Paul Veyne.
    ISBN
    0880339756
    LCCN
    ^^^98061690^
    OCLC
    41944492
    RCP
    H - S
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