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La Fin Du Monde: Enquete Sur l'Origine Du Mythe.
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Series: Verite Des Mythes, Book 21
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ISBN10: 225132433X
ISBN13: 9782251324333
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Nov 16 2007
Pages: 402
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782251324333
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Nov 16 2007
Pages: 402
Language: French
L'eclipse du 11 aout 1999 a eu lieu... et la Terre tourne toujours. Une terrible tempete a ravage la France et une grande partie de l'Europe pour l'avenement de l'an 2000. La destruction des Twin Towers de Manhattan le 11 septembre 2001, meme si elle resulte du terrorisme, a, elle aussi, quelque chose de cataclysmique. Douloureuse fin et douloureux debut de siecles! Le grand interet, mele d'inquietude, que suscite ce changement de millenaire, n'est pas neuf: voici plus de 2000 ans que des generations attendent la fin du monde, ou, a defaut, quelques prodromes incontestables de son imminence. Depuis fort longtemps deja, des hommes, tous dignes de confiance, ont elabore de savants calculs afin de determiner la date de cet evenement inoui, mais l'unanimite n'est pas de mise dans ce domaine, et l'humanite a franchi les siecles, les uns apres les autres, millenaire apres millenaire, sans que se verifient les predictions, sans que s'ecroule l'univers? D'ou vient donc ce mythe tenace, car c'en est un, selon lequel l'univers doit un jour disparaitre, succombant a un fleau d'une ampleur extraordinaire? C'est pour repondre a cette question que Christine Dumas-Reungoat a mene avec science et passion l'enquete qui fait la matiere de ce livre et qui conduira le lecteur des anciens Mesopotamiens a la Bible en passant par Hesiode et l'Avesta.
Christine Dumas-Reungoat, nee en 1966, a ete l'eleve de Bernard Deforge et de Jean Bottero. Elle est aujourd'hui maitre de conferences de langue et litterature grecques a l'universite de Caen.
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