Antiquity - Nimble Spirit

Francesco Montorsi, Memory of the Ancients. Literary traces from Antiquity to the 12th and 13th centuries

This essay addresses the question of how a past, that of the 12th and 13th centuries, represented, transmitted, used, lived another past, that of the Greek and Latin worlds. It then aims to identify and interpret the literary traces of the memory of Antiquity in a corpus of vernacular texts (ancient novels, chronicles, translations of … Read more

Historian Paul Veyne is dead. He had spoken to us of Antiquity and of love

by Rebecca Bush

Actor Ethan Hawke reflects on Godard and grief at Raymond

Specialist in Greek and Roman Antiquity, holder of the History of Rome chair at the Collège de France, Paul Veyne died on Thursday, September 29, at the age of 92. In 2014, on the occasion of the publication of his book of memories, “And in eternity I will not be bored”, we met him to … Read more