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Fesi, Andrea. "L'espace culinaire grec. Entre Grèce et Grande-Grèce." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040227.
Scientific works on antique food have been tackled for decades. However, there are few researches that deeply treated the place that the food in itself occupied during the Greek civilization. In order to answer that question, we have decided to focus on different documentary sources by comparing them. These sources enabled us to have a typology of the most eaten food by highlighting many phases or culinary mode. We also asked ourselves about culinary methods and the place of the cook by achieving a list of the different people that appeared in the different sources. To be able to do this, we give emphasis to the existence of different schools and specialties taught in Greece and Great Greece. This movement gave way to the creation of a gastronomic literature that was forgotten and yet it could be found in the encyclopedic work of Athénée of Naucratis. During Antiquity, food did not have a gastronomic purpose. Nevertheless, it was used for medical purposes in order to cure different diseases. The different recipes that are the core of this work help us to distinguish the different use of food. However, they prevent us from having a global view on culinary methods on the different scales that constitute Greece and Great Greece’s society. Yet some aspects of this culinary tradition are still carried on. Indeed, it has been noticed in some geographical areas that some recipes or food use used in the religious or cultural context were able to survive
Diatta, Micahel Syna. "L'image de l'homme à la peau foncée dans le monde romain antique : constitution, traduction et étude d'un corpus de textes latins." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCC033/document.
By its difference and its similarity, the man with the dark skin appeals to the elders who, from the Greek scientists, wanted to find geographical and climatic reasons, that is to say “scientific reasons”, to his otherness. It is the ancient Roman world that was chosen as the framework of this research. A corpus of literary, historical and philosophical Latin texts is used in a wide chronological range (from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD), however, in comparison with the Greek referents. The work is based on a lexicological approach, with the study of the Latin words of color and their different connotations, to investigate the interactions between evocation of skin color 'other' and social, philosophical, religious of the ancient Roman world. What are the dark-skinned men with whom the Romans came in contact, who came to the city, and what place they held, restricted between what limits and what functions, with what impact on their new environment - and on themselves. If necessary, the iconographic documentation is also requested. The field of patristic literature is explored, in which the dark-skinned man occupies a certain place, and we try to characterize the symbolic dimension that he acquires in the early Christian writers. The contributions of the foregoing experts (Fr. M Snowden Jr., L. S Senghor) are critically taken into account, taking into account the difficulty experienced by moderns in abstracting from their own cultural, conceptual and intellectual study these realities of contact between people with different skin color in the Roman world of antiquity
Durand, Céline. "Docere ridendo mores : satire et philosophie chez Sénèque." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2024SORUL026.pdf.
This doctoral thesis aims at studying the place of satire in Seneca's literary and philosophical works. Starting with a work that is often left out of Seneca's corpus, the Apocolocyntosis, we endeavour to identify the characteristics of Seneca's satirical writing, in order to understand how it spreads throughout his work and becomes one of the major instruments of philosophical parenesis. These aesthetics of combination and distortion, which rely on a need for monstration, involve the creation of impassioned and disparaged figures, the antimodels, who become the major protagonists of Seneca's thought. Indeed, Seneca recourses more often to the examples of mad, voluptuous, angry men, than to the traditional models, to illustrate his thought. His aim is to create repellent figures who will have a positive influence on the reader, through the disgust or derision they will provoke. Seneca also applies this rhetorical strategy to his developments on political philosophy. His position at the Roman court and the tyrannical excesses of the governing men nevertheless forced him to play with the conventions of satire in order to criticise more or less discreetly the mighty, to educate the princes and to lead them towards a moral reform that would make them happy men, wise men, but above all good rulers
Pelletier, Anne-Marie. "Lectures du cantique des cantiques, de l'enigme du sens aux figures du lecteur." Paris 8, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA080077.
The purpose of the work is to throw light on the various ways in which readers implicated themselves in the song of songs, as well as the historical figures those readers embodied within the readings. The overall aim is to show that it is these figures and the way in which they are implicated in the act of understanding that in reality modulate the contrasting and occasionally contradictory history of the text. From this point of view, the broader ambition is to contribute to the history of exegesis. After clarifying the practical and theoretical limits inherent in modern approaches to the song of songs, a denial of subjectivity is demonstrated whose action is the very principle of the traditional allegorical reading of the text. This thesis is supported by analysis of a sample of texts bearing witness to the functions and usages of the poem in the patristic period (baptismal catechisms, hymnology, epistolary literature, commentaries proper). These texts are examined on the basis of suggestions furnished by a problematic of quotation and paraphrase derived from the theory of enunciation. Their analysis shows that an allegorical reading of the song is not a semantic operation but above all an enunciative act seeking to make it possible to implicate the reader in the text. Subsequently, there is an examination of the meaning of the repetition, consisting of the continuation through the centuries of this traditional manner of reading, by analysing texts by guillaume of s. Thierry, gertrude of helfta and theresa of avila. It is shown how the appearance of sameness cloaks a rich diversity, against the background, nonetheless, of an unchanging attitude inherited from the patristic period. Simultaneously, a comparison of the christian with the jewish reading shows how divergences in interpretation - the only ones perceptible for a semantic approach- play a subordinate role relative to a shared way of conceiving of reading and of being implicated in it
BERRONE, ARMANDO. "Prose d'art et poesie dans la litterature ancienne d'israel : leurs techniques et procedes comme instrument d'exegese." Paris 8, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA080567.
With a stylistic approach of texts, characterized by a complex redactional history and wich are subject to interpolations, it is possible to extract notions of context flexible enough to fit better to each particular situation. This approach allows to shed more light on some texts of hebrew and greek bible, and of the new testament, whose interpretation is problematic (psalm 139; the book of jonah; 11. Th and 16. Th psalms of solomon; gospel according to matthew ch. 24. )
Fortassier, Pierre. "L'hiatus expressif dans l'iliade et dans l'odyssee." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040144.
The hiatus results from the encounter of the final vowel of a word and the initial vowel of the next one. In homer's verse, it is usually bypassed by dropping a more. If a short one, the final vowel is elided; if a long one, it is shortened. But this general rule admits of exceptions, when the final short vowel is not elided or the final long vowel is not shortened. When on the strong stress, this anomaly does not alter the verse structure (so we shall not mention it), whereas on a weak stress -after one of the two short syllabes of the dactyl, or the second long one of the spondee- it brings into the line a break which sounds like a mistake, and this is the subject-matter of his study. This, which was an insoluble question before bentley's brillant find, re-introducing the initial digamma, writes off a good many inexplicable hiatuses. There are some left, though; hence the endeavours of heyne, spitzner, ahrens, to account for or excuse those hiatuses judjed faulty. Their endeavours, as well as those of their successors, remain ineffec- tive. The present study is informed by a different princi- ple, one which is not an a-priori, but is imposed by the text itself, and one which is proved valid all along. Far from being "faulty", the hiatus serves expressive purposes. It alway expresses a separation, vi-
Gallet, Bernard. "Recherches sur l'ambiguite dans la poesie de pindare." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA040106.
The text of pindar's epinician odes occasionally reveals deliberate literal ambiguities in which the polysemy of certain particular words as well as the various possibilities of syntactic arrangement within one and the same poetic line have been exploited. These are objective ambiguities, consisting in the superimposition of two distinct meanings which, except in rare occurrences, can only be expressed in two different translations. Naturally inclined to use verbal puns or hidden meanings, to which he himself draws our attention, pindar was induced to this by a hermetic conception of language, itself possibly influenced by the oracles. The ambiguities appear in transitional passages and maxims, in which the context can no longer be trusted to suggest which sense may be assigned to polysemic terms. Their purpose is to conceal ideas that may be of interest to the recipient of the ode or connoisseurs in poetry, but are inappropriate in a text intended to serve as the medium of a musical and choreographic work performed in front of a large audience. The ambiguities quoted as examples express professional concerns (the problem of a fee is occasionally alluded to in a humorous manner), but other subjects also happen to be approached through the same device. Some of these ambiguities (pythian odes i,81 sq. And ix, 76 sq. ) are based on a syllepsis (in a rhetorical sense) of the everyday word kairos and the technical term kairos (i. E. Chainedspacing cord, which plays a vital part in warp-weighted loom weaving). In pindar (as well as in aeschylus, euripides and plato. . . ) other controversial uses of kairos are elucidated by hypothesizing a relationship with the technical term, which tends to confirm that the everyday word is in direct descent from it, with a change in accentuation
Banniard, Michel. "Viva voce. Communication orale et communication ecrite du ive au ixe siecle en occident latin." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA040057.
Lambin, Gérard. "La chanson grecque dans l'antiquite." Lille 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990LIL30013.
Study of songs (or fragments of songs) of ancient greece and of the testimonies with, in conclusion, the elements of an anthropology of ancient greece according to these songs
Gascou, Jean. "Le codex fiscal d'hermopolis (p. Sorb. Inv. 2227), edition, commentaire philologique et historique." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986STR20027.
The fiscal codex of hermopolis, dated early 7th century a. D. , is divided between the sorbonne collection and the bnu in strasbourg. It is one of the largest documents on papyrus. It consists of a systematic register of the wheat tax-payers, first step of a further control of the levies. Although structurally simple, the document utilizes a specific terminology, part of which remains obscure. It gives an important number of information about topography, institutions and religious life of hermopolis by the end of the byzantine rulle
Debarbieux, Éric. "Folies et fous dans la pensée platonicienne." Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble ; 1990-2015), 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991GRE29015.
Three mechnisms of the madness are studied in the platonic dialogues, dependent on ancient representations. The madness of deprivation is disconnection of intellect, deprivation of the anthropological and psychological limits. The madness of transgression testifies a state of special spirit which leeds to the crime. The madness of possession is especially invasion of the spirit by passion. Several types of man are particulary threatened by these madnesses; they are at the borders of humanity and the city. It is the case of the tyrant, near to the sophist, who is primarily a perverted philosophical naturalness. It is because he is the best than the gifted man of greatest qualities is likely to lose himself, to think in the animality in consequence of a blindness by flatterers and pleasure. The pleasure, which limes in the tangible world, appears cause of the madness in a broad aetiological system. The recognition of the divine madnesses is in fact only purification of irrational, detachment of tangilbe world, recognition of rational in the inspired speech. All the philosophical treatment of madness is this purification: by eugenetics, by logotherapy, by law. It is the philosophy which thought madness, not medecine, and it is one of the great tasks of the philosophy of becoming a cure of the souls
Rousseau, Philippe. "Destin des heros et dessein de zeus dans l'intrigue de l'iliade." Lille 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995LIL30028.
This book proposes an interpretation of the plot of the homeric iliad. Conceding to the analysts that the development of the action does not display the kind of organic unity to which even the most sophisticated among the unitarians seemed unwilling to renounce, it undertakes to retrieve the purport of an oral composition whose power and beauty rest on its compositeness and artificiality - the product of a conscious and intellectual artistry. It builds on the researches of the so-called "oral poetry" school, but shifts its focus from the working of an oral tradition to the meaning of the particular work which has come down to us, in the selection, elaboration and careful assemblage of his themes homer - the implied author of the iliad - introjects in his story, through a network of allusions, thematic metonymies and "refigurations" (rather than imitations), the bulk of the legend of troy. His epic offers a condensed version of the end of the heroic age. The sufferings and deaths caused to the achaeans by achilles wrath lead to the death of hector and the fall of troy, but they also foreshadow and figure the fateful return of the conquerors to their fatherlands, just as patroclos' death foreshadows achilles', and the treacheries of bk iii and iv echo and repeat the rapt of helen. The wall or the achaeans takes its significance, highlighted by the prolepse at the beginning of bk xii, from the +design of zeus; introduced by homer in the proem both as a law governing the course of events and a principle for the interpretation or the narrative. The essential duplicity of this plan rules the game of the gods, bringing about the doom of the fated city when hector, their protector, becomes the bane of his people, equal to paris. The first day of the war (bk, ii to vii) sets the trap for men and gods (but zeus) alike. While the narrative of the chariots race (bk xxiii) mirrors the main events of the story and questions the formal and ethical norms of the epic genre
VILLARD, LEGLAY LAURENCE. "Tyche des origines a la fin du veme siecle avant j. C." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040320.
This work does not make a study of a concept (fortune, chance), but of the tyche's family in her historical development, with the help of the largest documentation (epigraphical, iconographical. . . ); however, the terminus which has been chosen (end of the vth. Century) gives to this study a content fundementally literary: analysis of the words, of their connections (affinity, opposition, synonyms), and of their context. Limited in homer to two verbs, which express the manufacture or the result, the encounter and sometimes the coincident, the family of tyche grows larger (positiv, then negativ words). In the pindaric odes, this terms refer to the athletic victory, and they represent in the aeschylean drama the infortunate event, opposition which recovers any similarities (same metaphors : balance, rudder), and makes the notion's unity. Realization of the divine justice in aeschylus, tyche is in sophocles and herodotus obedient to the law of alternance : its the time of the divine necessary fortune and of this ring which comes back to his owner. In euripides, tyche no longer obeys any rule : plenty of plurals, disappearance of all the stability's images, relation with the dice, the lot and the lucky find. But the gods sometimes behave as she does, so that the man doubts their reality and begins to believe her. .
Papayanni, A. "Recherche sur le roman grec et la comédie nouvelle." Université Stendhal (Grenoble ; 1970-2015), 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1995GRE39030.
The present work deals with a parallelism beteween the new comedy and the greek novel. At first, it is proposed a study of character portrayal. We have examined the origins of characters which leads to a typologie. We have analysed then the role of each character portrayal trying to determine the importance of each other and attempted to point out the dramatic prossesses as to bring out the general idea of each work. This is the reason we have attempted to defihe the colour and the particular character of each action. Three angles were privileged : the centers of interest, the nature of the action motives and the developement of the plot. In the third part the narrative prose became a theatrical presentation. The author is always omniscient and is able to share his knowledge, whenever he so chooses, with the rader directly, without letting the information passtrhough the action on the characters. The narrative schema is : problem developement (separation - conflict) solution (reconciliation - reunion). Nevertheless, habits and customs of a special class are constantly reccuring feathrues of the narration
Bokström, Marianne. "Le ne dit « explétif » est-il en voie de disparition ? : Développement et usage depuis l´ancien franςais jusqu’au franςais contemporain dans des textes essentiellement littéraires." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-196931.
Birette, Fabrice. "L’imaginaire de la métamorphose dans la littérature et les arts figurés de la Grèce ancienne." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040086.
The universe of the metamorphosis recovers multiple fields of the thought and the social reality of the ancient Greece. Numerous myths, diverse ritual practices confine a daily world of the transformation. Apparitions or divine metamorphosis, fables or legends of transformed heroes, dance masked, stuffings, etc., establish so many elements and motives which participate in the elaboration of the identity of the Man and his imaginery. It is considerable that the myths of metamorphosis among which the Literature and the Figurative Arts abundantly made the echo, held in this process an important part considering their big elasticity since at least the mycenaenan period. The universe of the metamorphosis confers a part of sense on the hard exercise of the everyday nature by introducing on second thought on the world of the hidden but also shows of constant efforts to think the body during the long period of the antique Greek history
Brémond, Mireille. "Prométhée et les autres bienfaiteurs et civilisateurs : relations, analogies, spécificités." Montpellier 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988MON30018.
Prometheus has much in common with others civilizers. They are all characterized by ambivalence, a cunning intelligence directed toward concrete achievements and by magical powers. Prometheus has an ability to predict the future which occupies an important place in his story. Hephaistos has a special status among the civilizers: he is the only "professional" craftsman of olympus. Moreover he has the most extensive magical powers. Having dealt with these common characteristics, it remains to be seen in what respects prometheus differs fundamentally from the others civilizers: by his status in the divine world, by the nature of his gifts which carry unfortunate consequences for him and his proteges: the withdrawal of the fire, the appearance of pandora, replica of the promethean creation. He is punished for the transgression of a law which requires that both mortals and immortals stay in their own places. Finally he is distinguished by his role as the creator of humanity. This episode underlines his limitations: the participation of athena who breathes life into statues, the stupid intervention of epimetheus, the story of the pious deucalion show that titan's actions are motivated by "hubris" and are thus destined in advance to fail
Pourkier, Aline. "L'heresiologie chez epiphane de salamine." Lille 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987LIL30017.
This thesis is concerned with the conception that epiphanius, bishop of salamis in cyprus and a father of the church in the 4 th century had of heresiology, a literary genre which had appeared two centuries earlier, and with the methods that he used. The author and his catalogue of heresies are first of all placed in their historical and heresiological contexts and then the study itself is carried out through a detailed analysis of ten characteristic notices taken from his main work, the panarion, in such a way as to reveal his sources, analyse his way of exploiting them and elucidate his thought and composition processes. The notices chosen for this study are the notice against noetus, the gnostic heresies of menander, satornilus, basilides, carpocrates and nicolas, the notice against tatian, the heresy of the quartodecimans, that of the cathari and lastly the judeo-christian heresy of the nasoreans. The conclusions make it possible to identify or confirm the primary as well as the extremely varied secondary sources of epiphanius, to see how he composes his notices, to reconstitute the corresponding notices in hippolytus' lost syntagma and to become familiar with the traditional techniques of heresiology and the way epiphanius adapts them for his own use. Despite the difficulties of his style and his rather disconcerting language, epiphanius remains a mine of information about the 4 th century church and heresies thanks to his concern with detail, the abundance of his sources and the sufficiently faithful use he makes of them, provided that one does not stop at a simple reading of his writings but takes into account his sources and heresiological methods he employs. The greek text, with improvements on that of corpus of berlin, and my translation of the notices are added to the work
Dulaey, Martine. "Victorin de poetovio, premier exegete latin." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040285.
Boulogne, Jacques. "Plutarque et l'epicurisme." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040073.
In order to analyse plutarch's attitude towards epicureanism, we must first observe how he reacts to the members and the dogmas of the school of epicurus, and, then look for the reasons for his attitude, and finally examine the philosophical basis for his behaviour. From his works it emerges that plutarch's interest is centered only on ancient epicureanism. On the other hand, his hostility, invariable though it is, never becomes sectarian. He sometimes uses stereotypes, though he is aware of their inaccuracy, but it is for the purposes of polemic, and because he does not think that they are incompatible with what logically follows the principles of epicurus. Acrually, though seldom heuristic, his critique is not merely rhetorical or eristic in its object : mainly concerned with the teaching of philosophy, it seeks to be fair, grounded on a complete and penetrating knowledge of the adverse system. Indebted to the academy and the portico as it is, it is not confined to prefabricated objections, nor mechanical refutations by means of school processes. Plutarch thus applies to perfection the method he advises his disciples to follow when dealing with any refutation
Laks, André. "Loi et persuasion : recherche sur la structure de la pensée politique platonicienne." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040443.
This study focuses on the laws of Plato and the theory of legislative preambles. The principles of the theory are clarified in chapter I (the double legislation) by means of a detailed analysis of laws iv, 718a-723b. Chapter II (constitution and consensus) shows how the platonic notion of a constitution struggles with the tension caused by two potentially opposed criteria, knowledge and harmony, and suggests that the theory of legislation can be viewed as a response to this problem. Chapter III (polis and self-control) considers the consequences of this legislative model at the level of the "internal constitution" of the soul. The relation between reason and pleasure appears as the fundamental problem of politics. The political aspects of the Socratic paradox are analysed. Chapter IV (education and rhetoric) assesses the value of rhetoric in Plato’s pedagogical scheme. Chapter V (what is a preamble?) Distinguishes various forms of persuasion in the laws. Chapter VI (the theory of possibility) traces the framework in which the doctrine of legislative preambles becomes meaningful on the basis of an analysis of the relationship between the republic and the laws. Chapter vii (goodness and chance) is a concluding chapter on the ambivalence of politics in Plato
Erbén, Tova. "Une étude diachronique du suffixe -ard : un examen du sens de quelques mots médiévaux." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-146838.