L'imaginaire de la montagne dans le monde antique

The imagination of the mountain in the antique world

• Auteur / Autrice : Christine Pierre
• Direction : Joël Thomas
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Études grecques et latines
• Date : Soutenance en 2012
• Etablissement(s) : Perpignan

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Résumé

Antique world is confronted with a territory which it does not master: the mountain. By its nature, this anxiogenic place belongs to the divine world and gives off supernatural energies. The man who climbs his slopes is confronted with this essential savagery for which the created world tries to regulate in plain. This repulsion which generates this locus tremendum arouses paradoxically an attractiveness maintained by the myths and legendary narratives. By its axial shape, the mountain connects the different worlds, from the infernal world to the celestial space. As for its layering, it is lived as an initiatory course. The presence of an interzone facilitates this traffic of the mortal and the immortal. During the meetings, marked with the nostalgia for a lost gold age, games of power are going to bind and to untying the fates. So this territory so rejected becomes an object of greed and sees itself instrumented little by little by the poets and mythographes. Become an archetype, the mountain is going to stand out as a space of the origins of Rome.