Publication details
Retrouver la Grèce dans le temps et dans l’espace : la Mer des histoires face à la création d’une géographie antique
| Title in English | Finding Greece in time and space : the Mer des histoires and the creation of an ancient geography |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The author is primarily interested in the history of the kingdoms, from their foundation and the genealogies of the first kings of ancient Greece to the history of its poleis. In this sense, he is less concerned with a history of Greece than with all the histories of each of its regions. This history is the result of a division, and is presented in the work as a non-continuous chapter of Antiquity. The image of the Greek people presented in the prologue, which speaks of the "mighty Greeks" as well as the Trojans, Romans and Assyrians (f. 2 r), is explained by the assimilation of the Greeks to the Argians (f. 1 v). On the other hand, no segment of the chronicle is entirely devoted to the Greco-Troyan conflict, and this absence seems to create a gap in memory, caused by the absence of the only episode that depicts the Greeks as a single ethnic group confronting a foreign power, embodied by Troy. Alongside the "great things worthy of remembrance" (f. 1 v), the idea of a single Greek identity is built up through numerous learned digressions, interwoven within certain circumscribed sections of the work, between the second and fifth ages, as the following tables show. |