Greeks and Romans in the Modern World
by Forum Le Monde Le Mans 1990
Category: History

This book discusses the debt we, in the modern world, owe to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Various terms, notions, images, and so on, originated in the ancient world. Contents: Introduction (Roger Droit); Could the Romans Answer the Questions We Put to the Greeks? (Jacques Brunschwig); Consensus and Values: What is a Eulogy? (Barbara Cassin); Greek Political Imagery and the Modern One (Cornelius Castoriadis); Suspended Belief (Michel Deguy); Political Gods (Marcel Detienne); The Concept of Liberty in Antiquity and Modern Times (Francois Hartog); When a Roman Citizen from Africa Wrote: Our Hebrew Ancestors (Christiane Ingremeau); Rome in the Late Empire and the Modern Trend