{"product_id":"les-grecs-aux-enfers-dhomere-a-epicure-paperback","title":"Les Grecs Aux Enfers: D'Homere a Epicure - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDanielle Jouanna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnglish summary: \u003c\/b\u003e When examining how the Greek concept of the underworld evolved from Homer (8th century BC) to the Epicurean philosophers (3rd century BC), two key characteristics emerge: \u003c\/p\u003ePerception of the underworld: Throughout their history, Greeks were divided between two contrasting concepts. The first, a Homeric legacy, perceived the underworld as a uniformly gloomy and dismal place, while the second, based on mystery religions and particularly on Plato, conceived of it as a highly complex place offering more pleasing prospects, mixed in with dreadful torments. Each change in the perception of the underworld underscored a new image of the universe until some challenged its very existence in the early 3rd century.The fate of souls: The latter have always had two possible destinations (either to go to \"Hades\" or to \"heaven\"), yet this concept evolved through the ages: according to Homer, the allotment of souls was based on social criteria; then, with the advent of mystery religions (Orphism and the Eleusinian cult), it was based on whether or not one was an initiate; lastly with Plato (no doubt also among the strictest followers of Orphism), the decisive factor between good and evil was based on moral criteria.Yet in what form, and on what paths, did thinkers and poets imagine these travelling souls to be? Could souls be reincarnated?Such an exhilarating panorama as this one, spanning from the origins of the Greek world to the Roman era, exists in no other book. It offers the general public a clear and entertaining read, and scholars an in-depth and occasionally novel subject study. \u003cb\u003eFrench description: \u003c\/b\u003e On imagine souvent les enfers des anciens Grecs comme un lieu immuable et sans histoire. Erreur ! La representation de cet autre monde ne cesse d'evoluer au cours des siecles. C'est l'invention progressive de l'univers infernal que retrace ici Danielle Jouanna - un univers omnipresent dans l'imaginaire des poetes et des philosophes et dans la vie quotidienne des Grecs.Rien n'est fixe pour l'eternite dans ce monde de l'au-dela: ni les criteres d'orientation des morts, ni leurs juges - si tant est qu'il y en ait -, ni les voyages que l'ame doit accomplir avant de parvenir a sa destination finale, ni la \u003ci\u003e vie \u003c\/i\u003e qu'elle y menera. Autant de representations de plus en plus complexes que de meditations sur la mort, depuis Homere et les poetes tragiques jusqu'a Platon, en passant par les adeptes de l'orphisme et des cultes a mysteres.Mais l'ame est-elle vraiment immortelle ? Ne disparait-elle pas en meme temps que le corps ? Ou, si elle survit, est-elle vouee a un cycle indefini de reincarnations - sous quelle forme, d'ailleurs ? Des le vie siecle avant notre ere apparait la tentation du scepticisme, qui culminera avec Epicure.Cependant, obstinee et sans cesse resurgente, la croyance en la survie de l'ame resistera toujours a la tentation du doute.\u003cb\u003eDanielle Jouanna\u003c\/b\u003e, agregee de l'Universite, a consacre a l'antiquite grecque son enseignement et ses recherches. Elle a transmis sa passion a ses eleves de classes preparatoires (khagne et hypokhagne) a Strasbourg, puis a Versailles. Auteur de nombreux manuels scolaires et universitaires, elle a aussi publie des ouvrages remarques comme \u003cb\u003eAspasie de Milet, egerie de Pericles\u003c\/b\u003e (Prix Diane Potier-Boes 2006 de l'Academie Francaise) et \u003cb\u003eL'Europe est nee en Grece \u003c\/b\u003e(2009).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48747441651961,"sku":"9782251445274","price":57.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/zutrt5N4ZG9782251445274.webp?v=1785672193","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/les-grecs-aux-enfers-dhomere-a-epicure-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}