For a heroic Christmas | EUROtoday

SIf you learn this column every now and then, you realize: the gods are nonetheless amongst us. The historical gods, in fact, but additionally the heroes. It is to them that Pierre Judet de La Combe – Hellenist and philologist, director of research on the EHESS and former director of analysis on the CNRS, to whom we additionally owe a translation of theIliad – devotes the second quantity of When the gods roamed the Earth, the e-book taken from his weekly present on France Inter dedicated to historical myths (Les Belles Lettres / Radio France Éditions / Albin Michel, 608 p., €25).

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The printed model continues actually, parallel to the acoustic model, this time with, within the highlight, the very talked-about Heracles and his twelve labors, Ajax, the little-known, and even Achilles, the omnipotent hero to whom Homer devoted his Iliad and demigod whose beginning was sealed by a cynical pact between Zeus and Poseidon. It was written, actually, that Thetis, sea goddess desired by the 2 brothers, would give beginning to a son stronger than his father.

To maintain each the facility of their respective domains (the sky and the ocean), they agreed that she would as an alternative unite with a mortal, a weak being whose offspring wouldn’t endanger their magistracy… Women are usually not not noted on this quantity since we discover there the good and tragic Cassandra and Andromache, the attractive Helen or my favorites, the Amazons, about whom a lot nonsense has been stated, and to whom Judet de La Combe pays a powerful however completely reputable tribute. Ah, Penthesilea!