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Les Plaisirs a Rome
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Series: Realia, Book 2
Ancient RomeGeneral World History
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ISBN10: 2251338195
ISBN13: 9782251338194
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 248
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782251338194
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 248
Language: French
Ce qui fait notre vie? Les bains, le vin, les femmes , fut-il ecrit sur le marbre d'un tombeau. Plaisirs et volupte! Nous sommes loin de l'image severe dont patissent trop souvent les Romains, cantonnes dans un role de legionnaire endurci ou de politicien phraseur. Si les debuts furent austeres et difficiles, avec la conquete du monde, ils ont rapidement affirme leur determination a profiter de la vie.
Seneque, en professeur de morale qui connait bien l'ame de ses contemporains, ne s'y trompe pas quand il fustige leur appetit de jouissance: il leur prete une philosophie assez eloignee de ses preceptes rigoureux: l'unique felicite, c'est de faire fete a la vie manger, boire, jouir de son bien, cela c'est vivre, c'est ne pas oublier que l'on est mortel. Les jours s'ecoulent, la vie acheve son cours irretrouvable. Et nous hesitons? Que sert d'etre sage puisque notre age ne sera pas toujours apte aux plaisirs... Tu n'as point de maitresse, point de mignon pour rendre jalouse ta maitresse tous les matins tu sors le gosier sec... Ce n'est pas la vivre, c'est regarder vivre l'autre. Quelle folie de se constituer l'intendant de son heritier! (Lettres a Lucilius, 123, 10).N'en doutons pas, le Romain sut gouter les plaisirs.Jean-Noel Robert, historien de Rome, a publie aux editions Les Belles Lettres, plusieurs ouvrages touchant a l'histoire des mentalites, Les Modes a Rome ou Eros romain, sexe et morale dans l'ancienne Rome, ainsi que De Rome a la Chine et une biographie sur Caton. Il dirige en outre la collection des Guides Belles Lettres des Civilisations dont il a signe deux volumes: Rome et Les Etrusques.
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