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Récits inédits de la guerre de Troie. L'Iliade Latine de Baebius Italicus, L'Ephéméride de la guerre de Troie de Dic

by G. Fry

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English summary: These three works written during the first centuries CE, available for the first time in French translation, present a more complete version of the Trojan war, of Homers Iliad. It was through these texts that medieval readers learned of the real history of the legendary struggle between Greeks and Trojans. French description: La guerre de Troie, c'est Homere, sa colere d'Achille, son Iliade, sublime, forcement sublime. Certes. Mais que de mensonges, s'ecrierent tres tot les mauvais esprits, quel recit incomplet!En reponse a ces critiques sont nees les trois oeuvres reunies dans ce volume - introuvables en francais -, seuls temoins subsistant d'une tradition jadis etoffee. L'Iliade latine, poeme du premier siecle de notre ere, que l'on trouvera ici traduite en alexandrins blancs, se veut ainsi une modernisation de la matiere homerique. L'Ephemeride de la guerre de Troie par Dictys de Crete ainsi que l'Histoire de la destruction de Troie de Dares le Phrygien sont quant a elles les recits d'une guerre racontee par ceux, Grecs et Troyens, qui l'ont vecue. Et c'est a travers eux que le monde medieval, occidental et byzantin, apprendra la veritable histoire de la guerre de Troie.Gerard Fry est charge d'enseignement de latin a l'Universite de Geneve.… (more)
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English summary: These three works written during the first centuries CE, available for the first time in French translation, present a more complete version of the Trojan war, of Homers Iliad. It was through these texts that medieval readers learned of the real history of the legendary struggle between Greeks and Trojans. French description: La guerre de Troie, c'est Homere, sa colere d'Achille, son Iliade, sublime, forcement sublime. Certes. Mais que de mensonges, s'ecrierent tres tot les mauvais esprits, quel recit incomplet!En reponse a ces critiques sont nees les trois oeuvres reunies dans ce volume - introuvables en francais -, seuls temoins subsistant d'une tradition jadis etoffee. L'Iliade latine, poeme du premier siecle de notre ere, que l'on trouvera ici traduite en alexandrins blancs, se veut ainsi une modernisation de la matiere homerique. L'Ephemeride de la guerre de Troie par Dictys de Crete ainsi que l'Histoire de la destruction de Troie de Dares le Phrygien sont quant a elles les recits d'une guerre racontee par ceux, Grecs et Troyens, qui l'ont vecue. Et c'est a travers eux que le monde medieval, occidental et byzantin, apprendra la veritable histoire de la guerre de Troie.Gerard Fry est charge d'enseignement de latin a l'Universite de Geneve.

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