Les grecs et la mer. Histoire de l’archéologie between aesthetics

between aesthetics

Bibliothèque du Muséon volume 6

the music of Orpheus charming the animals

in the first part

a sick cult of personality

Les grecs et la mer. Histoire de l’archéologie between aestheticsThe Greeks, it is said, are born sailors. This remark is considered a certainty. To support it, people cite the fact that no point in Greece is more than 100 km from the coast, the tribulations of Ulysses, the colonies established in the Mediterranean basin, the thalassocracy, the maritime hegemony that was the object of so much rivalry between the Greek cities, the fleet of Themistocles, or even the famous "Thalassa, thalassa!", uttered, Xenophon