L'art de résister, Comment l'"Énéide" nous apprend à traverser une crise. Gaule as a fisherman

as a fisherman

the "truth itself

Of this dizzying accumulation

Yet the Ancients never stopped poring over Homer's myths in order to uncover their underlying themes

c’est faire émerger les ressorts d’un univers culturel et mental

L'art de résister, Comment l'"Énéide" nous apprend à traverser une crise. Gaule as a fishermanThe Aeneid is not a poem for peacetime. Its verses are not appropriate when everything is going smoothly. Its song is intended for the moment when the urgency is felt to find our way back to an after that astounds us by its difference from the before in which we have always lived. To put it in meteorological language: reading the Aeneid is warmly recommended in the midst of a hurricane, and if possible without an umbrella. For Aeneas no longer has a