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Spring?

Yes, I know, we announce the return of hard frosts, yes, I see, it is barely half past five ET the sun has already fallen behind the neighbor's roof and the sky was invaded darkness ...

I know, I see it, but notwithstanding the last two days, I sniffed the sweetness of the air and the smell of damp earth smell a little spring ...

Then suddenly lava bridge , water buckets, a broom, "rice straw", I swept, brushed, washed the decks, and tables and garden chairs. As if we were to dine there in the sun soon ...

And I saw that by scraping under the fallen leaves, dried, rotten through the winter, the tips pointed green crocus, hellebores preparing the their buttons. Besides primroses venture a few flowers in the corners of the garden, I saw a bunch of purple flowers away from the wall of the house ...

My fury of the household has been away a while chickadees in attending permanent fat balls installed in our plum ...

With Camille, who since she has seen and reviewed three times Three Men and a Cradle understood that happiness Baby playing is not fun for girls and rediscovers his old infants with enthusiasm, moving away for a time the mechanics, legos, games and other more "boy" (failed!) Santa Claus, with Camille so we decided to take the children to make them the air ....

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Banana Halloween

Another student question:

- How do you say "banana" in Latin?

- But see, the Romans did not know bananas!

That said, I do not leave completely plan my student because I remember rightly viewed with some amazement that word in a Latin American textbooks that I order some on the site "Amazon." The Americans teach Latin as a living language. They are less savvy than us on the cultural context necessary to an understanding of texts by authors, however, they handle the language with much more ease than us and therefore fall much more easily in these authors' texts; nothing is perfect! If I sometimes walked among my textbooks from overseas, not to violate official instructions Program of the French National Education, just to draw ideas from small ad hoc dialogues easy to relieve students by giving them the feeling that even a whole text without toil.

short! Back home, I immersed myself in the manual in question, and easily found my fanny, "Arian! This is surprising because one would have expected "banana", but where does this "Arian specific, which means" banana "in any modern language, to describe a reality unknown to the Romans?

I jump on Gaffiot which, "Arian refers me to" ariera "and learn that it is the fruit of the jackfruit tree, I had the good fortune not to know. There is a reference: Pliny, XII 24. This is the chapter on exotic trees in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder. I begin to understand: it is possible that the Romans had not experienced the banana, but one author has described from stories of travelers.

Good. I try to find the text of Pliny in question, Latin, and if possible in French translation, which, despite the magic of the Internet, is not so easy, as Pliny wrote that kind of money that few translators who dared to translate it entirely (apparently there are only translations of the nineteenth century (needless to say we no longer found at Fnac!)) and that few users of today who have finished the scan entirely in Latin! On the other hand, it appears that "XII 24" is sometimes referred to "XII 12", there must have chapters and subsections that overlap ...

short, I finally found, and I submit the text in the translation of Littre slightly modified:

"Another fruit tree, the largest, won by the size and flavor of its fruit, which the sages of India feed. The leaf is shaped like a bird's wing and is three cubits long and two wide. The fruit comes out of the bark it is admirable for the sweetness of its juice, one is enough to satisfy four people. The tree is named pala , the fruit Ariena . It is most abundant in the country Sydraques, terms of Alexander's expedition. "

other hand, looking a bit again on the internet, I realized that it was sometimes thought that Pliny described in this text bananas, before discovering that it was rather the fruit of the jackfruit.

So, although this interpretation has been disproved, it was tempting to suggest that Latin word to translate our existing banana so common, and I do not think it would be good Pliny offended ...

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Anouar Brahem and Richard Galliano

to the hazards of night ...
By visiting my blog-friend-on-blog-and-facebook Eric Bernardin, in order to use his power to prepare advice rich meal on December 24th, I am distracted from my reading of its page the beautiful music of Anouar Brahem The pitch of the black cat .

Michel, I know, had bought, and I rush to find him (the CD) to listen ...

He told me (Michael):

- With Matinier. It was also the one with Richard ..

- Galliano?

divine surprise, I propose to share ... In particular

Wave ...

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Anouar Brahem

Khomsi

Richard Galliano
François Couturier Jean Marc

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Palle Danielsson Jon Christensen

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Snow

Small text circumstance ...
Small text without consequence ...
Small text of an inconsistent

The white snow
Angels angels in heaven
One is dressed as an officer
One is dressed as a chef
And others sing


Bel officer sky color
The sweet spring long after Christmas
Te medal bright sunshine
A beautiful sun


The cook geese feather
Ah! Snow falls
Tomb and what have I
My beloved in my arms

Guillaume Apollinaire (Spirits)


Yes, it snows, snow, snow
On trains
On the beautiful highways,
on trucks, planes
And .... Snowing in Paris

Snowing Snowing Nancy
our friends

But here no snow at all
Just a very mild
To gather the mistletoe and holly ...
I regret very much !!!!!!

With us it will snow on
spring flowers, camellia garden,

In our winter is crazy ...!

was March 8 2010 .... 16h 45

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Agatha Christie, Creams and punishment ...

As I already wrote in my blog , I've always loved Agatha Christie, in any case since I was 18 or 19 years at the time of my license letters, when she was hardly blameless among the students of literature. It was part of my marginality, as Camus that was then fashionable to look like a nice "humanist" rather than as a philosopher - that he should prefer-Sartre, and as Voltaire, far from the visionary thinking of Rousseau!, was guilty of extra sympathy bourgeois, capitalist and slave trade, owner shares sugar etc. .. etc. ... well ... I delighted, but the admitting without admitting it, the Plague, Candide, and ... Agatha.

Yesterday Michel income is the Cultural Centre forecourt (Leclerc..) With a small gift:

cream and punishment

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Agatha Christie

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I'm never really works in context I like to read. To me they were running in-itself within their system of texts, themes or characters, that's where the contrasts are formed, reconciliations, and prospects, which is built for me the meaning ...

so I do not know if I would have bought this book myself, I had been wrong not to do it, because I found great pleasure to read ... thank you Michael!

By collecting over the novels of revenue or gourmet delights, is the image of a woman whom they briefly in the background: gourmet teas and muffins, huge picnics, to double cream, English breakfasts, but also sea bathing, walking, travel, life in a word or even freedom and love ... a woman who is not unlike her contemporary Colette, including Willie, his neurotic husband, told with a touch of weariness: "She loves everything! "Coco Chanel ... or

I realize while reading that food tastes are not harmless and they help build systems of characters

A Hercule Poirot, Belgian gourmet" continental "great hater of British cooking, sweet super sweet almost nauseating, Miss Marple refinement of real muffins and scones, good cup of hot tea well sweetened offered as a remedy to the anguish of the victims, Ariadne Oliver bulimia fruit fresh apples in particular, whose stalks trimmed to hang around ... Chimney aristocrats, the substantial breakfasts, meals Christmas forcefully game and poultry ...

In fact the mention of food contributes to building a fictional world by giving it a tangible reality, these small details which readers are told "you could not invent *". Realistic and certainly both totally fictitious and exotic for us as these details mark the world as belonging to another time, another country, another social class. A bit like in the movies or some of Hitchcock films F. Ozon, or adaptations of Agatha Christie P. Thomas ....

Both giving presence and scenery ... the illusion of reality, but a real and invented abroad ...

added finally, as evidenced by the title that all this food often serves delicious "Device" ** to poisons sophisticated or violent, that in all these delights may or may not , and this is the ambiguity of Agatha Christie, housing the threat of death ...

"Beware of the sweetness of things," beware of the delights of life ...

But do not forget to enjoy ....

* the secret of realism according to Diderot

** within the meaning of the word processor of course ..

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Pliny among the Romans

J 'I got used to post daily on the table in my classroom today's date from the Roman calendar, possibly followed by an indication of a party or a celebration taking place today then the Romans, as well as an event that would have happened that day in Roman history.

But last October 5 was "Mundus patet, "" the world is open. " This is the world of the dead. Indeed, that day, the Romans, moved a heavy flat stone placed over a hole supposed to be a mouth of Hell. The spirits of the dead could therefore release all day outdoors and partying with their close living world. At the end of the day, they returned to their holes wisely!

One student asked if it was the same as Halloween. The similarity struck me indeed, and the proximity in timing, especially since the Romans it again on November 8!

course, Halloween is related to All Saints is a Christian holiday, but we know that Christians did not invent anything and that most of their holidays have a Greco-Roman. Greco-Roman or Celtic, and in this case, Halloween is of Celtic origin, and Christians have just grafted the Saints the next day, just to stand out.

However, the question remains unanswered for my students because it seems hard to believe that this is the chance which has established similar festivals around the same time of year (Mundus Patet takes place three times: August 24 , Oct. 5 and Nov. 8). I think that we should not get well far the answer. Among the Romans as the Celts, the feast of the dead takes place just in autumn, when nature is starting to die, where time is more sad when the nights are longer, and where there is naturally more inclined to think of death.

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Tom and Leah Save the Heritage of Humanity

After Percy Jackson (cf. http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/07/mythologie-la-sauce-u.html ), I'm back in children's literature, again with American origin, but for younger people. This is the series "The Magic Cabin", discovered by my daughter. This series currently has a large success judging by his presence not only on the shelves of bookstores, but also in those stores and hypermarkets press!

The idea is simple and seductive. Heroes, Tom and Leah (a brother and sister aged 9 and 7), travel through time and space through a magical shack (led by Morgan le Fay, who takes her own orders of the Merlin) and books. In each book in the series, they are given a mission, usually to save a book or a work of art important to humanity, and must solve puzzles to get there. The result

is not so much height. The writing is pretty poor (everything is also written in the present, which I find rather odd) and rebounds largely predictable (perhaps not by the readers of the target age, it is true, but I like that is ambitious in children's literature). Finally, in the early volumes, written in the late 1990s, the cultural contributions are limited to a few big shots known to the general public. However, I admit, the author (Mary Pope Osborne) has evolved and the latest volumes (much longer in fact), written in recent years are built on a plot more complex and contain much less obvious cultural contributions.

I speak here of three volumes concerning my favorite subjects - like, for that matter, Tom and Leah are not yet gone to Mesopotamia! This may come ... - The Romans in Pompeii with Panic (1998), Ancient Greece, with chariot race at Olympia (1998) and the Golden Age of Arab-Muslim world with Sandstorm (2007) .

In the first two, Tom and Lea save a book about a legend in Olympia that of Pegasus (whose name is spelled in Greek early the novel (with an error on the spelling of the capital eta!): this is supposed to generate suspense unbearable, except that when we read Greek (I know, I know is rare in the age of targeted readers! ), we know immediately the last word!) and Pompeii, that of Hercules ("vir FORTISSIMUS in mundi": again I quickly guessed that was "the strongest man in the world" !).

The passage made me laugh the most (in dismay!) Is the meeting of Tom and Lea Plato in chariot race at Olympia :

Both are moving towards the entrance when a voice calls out:
- Wait!
They turn. A white-bearded man walking towards them.
- Hello, he said, watching the little girl. Who are you?
- And you? reply Leah aggressive. The bearded
smiled
- My name is Plato.
- Plato? repeated Tom. Your name sounds familiar ...
- Maybe you've heard of me. I am a philosopher.
- What is a phiso ... a philosopher? asked Leah.
- A man who seeks wisdom.
- Wow! did the little girl in awe. This
laugh Plato.

Which Plato is then presented as a staunch feminist, which is totally outdated! Most importantly, I found this great figure just ridiculed in his role as bearded pass!

It is quite different from Sandstorm . Remember my recent articles on the transmission of Greek science (including works of Aristotle) to the Arabs of the eighth-ninth century, which were then forwarded to Western Europe:
cf. "Books very heavy" http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/01/des-livres-tres-lourds.html
cf. "The Greeks, Arabs and us": http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/05/les-grecs-les-arabes-et-nous.html
cf. "Greek Thought, Arab Culture ": http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/08/pensee-grecque-culture-arabe.html
What was my surprise to see that it is this - for once more pointed that the eruption of Vesuvius at Pompeii or the Games of Olympia! - Which is processed by Mary Pope Osborne in this novel! And obviously, you have guessed that we need the transmission of the writings of Aristotle (which seem to be any integer in a little book, which is curious when you know how prolific author was, but nevermind!) To the caliph al- Mamoun ... Yes, to Tom and Leah, of course!

But here, despite some inevitable cliches (camels, palm trees, flying carpet (tiens! a flying carpet, one more: cf. "The mystery of the flying carpet" http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2008/04/le-mystre-des-tapis- volants.html )), the story is well documented, and the character of the Caliph al-Mamun was treated with splendor, far from the ridiculous poor Plato.

Finally, I must say I appreciate that in 2007, while U.S. troops occupied Baghdad frightening delivered to a civil war, an American author chose to mention in a book for children a beautiful Baghdad, carrier culture and wisdom ...

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They shall not pass!

I said that the purpose of the strip is not to denigrate the demonstrations, legitimate in itself, but rather the stupidity of student protesters, including 3 / 4 march only to skip class (and incidentally annoy their world by making "sitting" on the roundabouts) without really knowing why they appear. And if you ask them, they will answer of course: "Because we do not want to work up to 70 years !"... My poor little ... before trying to know how old you are going to work, ask yourself rather WHEN you find a job ...

This was a statement of discontent against the idiots.

The claims office is open daily between 12am and 24:01.

Thank you for your understanding.

Motte.

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The last pagan

In reading the book Dimitri Gutas (see "Greek Thought, Arab Culture": http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/08/pensee-grecque-culture-arabe.html ), j 'I discovered the existence of a certain Gemistos Plethon Georgios (1360-1452 or 4), a Byzantine philosopher, who believed that Greece in particular and the world in general would be better off if we abandoned Christianity to return to a system close to the Greek Paganism. He outlined his doctrine in Laws , book unfortunately partly destroyed. The Olympian gods in a specific hierarchical order, are presented as govern the universe. He also said based on the doctrine of Zoroaster (who was known in ancient Persia) and the Chaldean Oracles (which is actually a Greek mystical book late, no relation to the Chaldeans, in some sense word: cf. http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2008/05/qui-sont-les-chaldens.html and http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2009/08/ils-sont- fools-these-chaldeens.html ).

Like the courage of this gentleman, who seemed also very intelligent and cultured, and I regret that his name be forgotten.

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Venus rebel

After the resurrection of the Venus de Milo through his blog (see "In the secrets of the Venus de Milo" http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/06/dans- the-secrets-of-the-coming-of-milo.html ), not surprisingly: it is out of the museum show to go ... And with whom? With teachers from the FSU! Yep, the very ones who last February had debauched a camel by screaming in their cottages animal advocates (see "The camel's drool does not reach the streets of Paris": http://cheminsantiques.blogspot .com/2010/02/la-bave-du-chameau-natteint-pas-le-pave.html ), here today who poach the Parisian masterpiece of ancient sculpture! We think that the defenders of ancient art will have more insight and humor and will enjoy this tasty diversion ...

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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Following a comment that had been done in a recent article on the Greeks and the Arabs (cf. http://cheminsantiques. blogspot.com/2010/05/les-grecs-les-arabes-et-nous.html ), I set about reading Greek Thought, Culture Arab Dimitri Gutas. Very interesting!

I admit I skipped some parts that went into the details of any translator, but the essentials are: a painstaking, serious and thorough, which gives us a comprehensive overview movement of translation of Greek works in the early centuries of the caliphate. Again, as in the other book I mentioned here, we understand that the entities "Greeks" and "Arabs" have no intrinsic meaning, they have very different meanings depending on the time, the place, religion. Translations related languages as varied as the Pahlavi (language of Sassanian Persia), languages of India, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac (Semitic language spoken by Arab Christians including Syria) for various peoples (Arabs from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Greek and Byzantine Egypt, Persians from Iran and Iraq) and of various religions (Christians, Muslims, Jews, Zoroastrians, Pagans), all these intersecting categories happily in a rich broth cultures!

Gutas Dimitri explains well the history of these translations, their sponsors, and even the legends built afterwards these movements translation. Legends which I thought myself well in an article earlier this year (see http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/01/des-livres-tres-lourds.html ), I spoke of "Bayt al-Hikma (" House of Wisdom ") of al-Mamun, and it was really just a library, extremely rich, certainly, but in no case university or a translation center.

One point I found very interesting and would do well to ponder the fundamentalists all edges (and also those who accuse all Muslims to be fundamentalists!) is as follows.

One reason that has prompted some Muslim religious scholars, followed by the caliphs, to translate some Greek texts, including Plato and Aristotle, dealing with rhetoric and argument, is that they wanted to find a dialectical method to be able to counter the arguments of their opponents in religious discussions (either with non-Muslims, between Muslims of different persuasions). The funny thing is that the Byzantine Christian emperors, themselves, wanted instead to get rid of these pagan Greek texts, fearing the possibility of a reasoned discussion of their risk losing the faithful if the opponents arguing better. They were all so happy to see that the Muslims had taken possession of these texts, and thought to have played a trick on the gullible!

I do not care one or the other religion, but I think in this story, people the wisest, most humane, are those who preferred the possibility of a discussion with others Even if this discussion could involve the risk of being persuaded by one we wanted to convince (which, incidentally, did not happen: the dialogues Dimitri cite Gutas show great to listen to others, but in the end both remained in their positions, convinced of his faith!)

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The dromedary psychopomp

I had recently informed the reopening of July 7 rooms of Greek sculpture in the Louvre (cf. http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/06/dans-les-secrets-de-la-venus-de-milo.html ). Naturally, I did not take long to go there. I was delighted to see my favorites, among them three of Praxiteles (or attributed to, or copied from, I care about such subtleties, the enjoyment of contemplation), Apollo Sauroctonus (= killer lizard, in this case a lizard), Aphrodite and Artemis at the apple hanging up his coat: the gods young, sophisticated, graceful, carved in marble almost translucent flakes. Even the Venus de Milo seemed less than usual pitcher - is it different light (it is now in daylight near a window)? do you read the comments that have been allocated (in the famous blog)? - And I found his smile seductive beauty of a troubling ...

More importantly, I discovered a relief that I do not remember ever having seen. This is indeed soon fifteen years that I have a passion for camels, and about the same (and more) that I have traveled the halls of the Louvre. This is a bas-relief of a camel ridden by a girl with butterfly wings:



The legend does heighten the mystery
"Votive relief (?):
Psyche on a camel
second century av. JC
Alexandria Troas (Turkey)
Marble
function as the interpretation of this relief is not certain. Psyche with butterfly wings mounted on a camel could symbolize the voyage of the soul toward the world of the Blessed. "

In Greek, the soul is called "psyche" and is often personified as a young girl, especially in the beautiful story of Apuleius tells the story of Eros (Love) and Psyche, but this story is after four centuries to our relief, and there is also no mention of a trip by camel (the narrator is an ass, but that's another story!).

In Greek mythology, the epithet "psychopomp '(=' conductor of souls") was often attributed to the god Hermes, when its function is to conduct the souls of those who have just died to the world of the dead.

In the Wikipedia article devoted to the word "psychopomp" I read that psychopomps deities "are often associated with animals such as horses, seals, ravens, dogs, owls, sparrows, or the dolphins. "

Well we'll have to add the camel! I think in fact there is no more beautiful setting to achieve the world of the Blessed, the slow pace and quiet its not safe and swaying.

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Mythology sauce U.S.

I recently read the first volume in a series for Youth (which also inspired a film released this year that I have not seen): these are the adventures of Percy Jackson, American author Rick Riordan. The premise is delicious: the gods of Greek mythology still exist and they continue to flirt with deadly and cause demigods, and the story follows these demi-gods, today's teens States United, including one, Percy (actually Perseus) Jackson, son of Poseidon.

I must confess: I can not find this book well written frankly (and again, not very well translated either: one feels Anglicisms) or well built (I always guessed this would happen at least three chapters before the characters: in the long run it's a bit boring!), but ... it is really very funny. Even if I do not think I will have the courage to get into the following volumes of the series, I really enjoyed reading this first volume.

Thus, the hero is, like many teenagers today, dyslexic and hyperactive. The reason is simple: the demigods are programmed to read ancient Greek (hence dyslexia!) And to participate in the battles on the ground (hence hyperactivity!). Reassuring, not to say that all our young dyslexic or hyperactive probably hiding prestigious ancestry!

Other gems: the Gorgon Medusa is a store of garden gnomes (who are actually the people she was petrified!) And Procrustes holds a mattress store water (and strongly encourages its customers to try his mattress, and then adjust their size (customers , no mattresses!)

Finally, one of the passages that made me laugh the most, but in the second degree, this time because I did not expect to find in a book for youth and Greek mythology this trait of mind in which many Americans believe their nation is the center of the world. One character says very seriously that the palace of Mount Olympus has moved in history to be always "With the heart of the West" (should we explain what this expression, and also the "West", moreover, because the Greek gods, are more Oriental than Rick Riordan seems believe it!): first in Greece, he then moved to Rome, then in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, England and now he is in New York over the Empire State Building, because "at present, the United States is the spearhead of the West" ...

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In the secrets of the Venus de Milo

If, like me, you love the classical Greek sculpture room at the Louvre and you 're unhappy since its closure ... ? (A year or two, I think he, perhaps more ...), I first good news for you: it reopens to the public on July 7th and I have a particularly good advice for you: a small daily reading, until J. This is a blog telling us every day the latest developments in the room. And guess who is the author of this blog? Obviously the only person who is there day and night and even on Tuesday to see everything that happens in this room, which was there even when everyone else had left, forcing celebrity ... Venus de Milo herself! His comments scholars or rogues are always tasty, and learn with her backstage at the Museum, you feel accepted into the secret of the gods (Greek, of course!).

Enjoy:

http://leblogdelavenus.blogspot.com/

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European Festival of Latin and Greek

As almost every year (see http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2008/04/la-msopotamie-nantes.html and http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com / 2007/05/le-festival-europen-de-latin-et-de-grec.html ), I attended last week at the Festival of Latin and Greek, which was held this year in Luxembourg:

http://www.festival-latin-grec.eu/?lang=fr

Everything was great and varied as usual.

Some highlights:

- exposure on the cart Greek Latin, by Robert Delort and his students
http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/lycee/diois/Latin/spip.php?rubrique136

- discover the fascination of Americans for Cicero, eloquence and his political vision, a presentation by Philippe Rousselot, chairman of the International Society of Friends of Cicero:
http://www.tulliana.eu/home. php? LANG = E & PAG = H

- A superb performance by Marc-Olivier Girard (you can see other videos of his performances on the Festival site, for example, the three little pigs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWRBysjCAqM & ; feature = channel or Little Red Riding Hood)

- the discovery of a beautiful little Roman Theatre discovered in 1985 in the middle of a farm in Dalheim: it is always in the middle of the farm and manure odors float old stones. You can see pictures taken by Robert Delort:
http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/lycee/diois/Latin/spip.php?article3388
(and those of the Roman villa Echtenbach: http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/lycee/diois/Latin/spip.php?article3389 )

Next year it will probably be in Paris.

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Greeks, Arabs and we

When I learned what was published in fall 2009 and a book entitled, I told myself: This is a book for me, my passion for the transmission of knowledge between East and West in both directions, who have studied Greek and Arabic studies. I was expecting a historical documentary, this is partly true, but this board is a polemic, as announced elsewhere immediately its subtitle: "Investigation on Islamophobia scholarly, "and finally, what is even more interesting, because I discovered this a little dusty passion usually does not reveal the crowds burning topical if exploited.

This is a collective work which was attended by scholars specializing in medieval history, anthropology, philosophy, religious studies, linguistics, etc.. And that is a response to a work of Sylvain Gouguenheim, Aristotle at Mont Saint-Michel. The Greek roots of Christian Europe , published last year in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers and on internet in the months that followed, fueling a media controversy, which I confess had completely escaped at the time.

The subject concerns the many ancient Greek texts that were transmitted to medieval Europe through Arab scholars.

Basically, Sylvain Gouguenheim explains that scientists who claim that "we" need "everything" to "Arabs" (these are the words he uses) are wrong, since the texts of Aristotle for example, have not been transmitted by the Arabs, but also by copyists in Europe, particularly in a monastery of Mont Saint-Michel.

***

The authors Greeks, Arabs and we meet him, not by retorting, "But if, but if we are indebted to the Arabs", but giving us a masterly lesson in historical method, which ultimately makes more work for the benefit of his particular subject.

is why I think this book should be read by every student of history, and even by any responsible citizen (even if some passages are too difficult, we will examine the mind).

The highlights of the valuable lessons I took away from reading this salutary

• First lesson: should not confuse the ideology with the story. Real historians are not for or against such a theory: they seek to know the truth as best as possible and, like any self-respecting scientist (because history is a science), do " believe "that they have some proof.

• Second lesson: beware of vague language. To take one example, that the word "we." First, in "We have (all / nothing) to the Arabs. "Who is this" we "? The Europeans, the Westerners? Today? From the Middle Ages? Besides, who am I in this "we", I who am half French and half Arab? And then the "we" "We had hidden the existence of other pathways transmission. "It's the" we "of the" general public "but the general public does not usually interested in subjects as sharp. For those who want to document, nothing is hidden, just check the literature!

• third lesson (which joined the previous): when we've done serious research in history, we realize that truth is never simple. medieval Western Europe must not anything or everything to the Arabs. And besides, what realities overlapping terms such as "Arabs", "Islam," the Greeks "," Europe ", the" Middle Ages "? Very different realities in time, space, and depending on the context. Some simple examples: "the Greeks" are not the ancient Greeks, but also the Greeks of Byzantium: the Greeks do they belong to Europe? In Christianity? Yes, yet often in conflict with Christianity in Western Europe. "Arabs" are not only Muslims but also Christians and Jews. And Jews, let's talk about: there's the Middle Ages as now both sides of the Mediterranean, and which belong to different cultures, while also bearing the Hebrew culture. "Muslims" are not all Arabs, but also Persian, Turkish, Berber. Finally, from late antiquity and the Renaissance (for "Middle Ages" is also a questionable formula) shows revolve around the ancient Greek texts as various people (Christians in the West, Christians of Byzantium, Syrian Christians, Arab Muslims and Arab Muslims of the East of Spain, Muslim Persian Jews from the East, North Africa, Spain, Northern Europe, and so on), you would have the difficulty reduce all these people to formulas or theories.

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Since I've spoke of camels in January and February and of Jahiz in January, here is one of the most delicious anecdotes that this great writer says on this noble animal. To understand this story, you must know that the camel (of course it is the dromedary camel, but contrary to the belief of most French people, "camel" does not mean "two bumps, but is the generic term ) is the animal symbol of the Arabs, who, even in the middle ninth century cultivated, claiming their origin Bedouin of the desert, simple and rough, facing the Persians (here represented by the ruler Chosroes) whose excessive refinement is often mocked.

Chosroes had at his court called a Bedouin, thinking of surprising her rudeness and ignorance. He asked:

- What is the thing that brings the sound further?

The Bedouin replied:

- The Camel

- And what is the thing which the meat is the best?

- The Camel.

- How the camel can he have the voice that is as far as we understand that the crane in both leagues?

- Put the crane in place the camel and the camel put in place of the crane, and you'll learn which one has the voice that carries the furthest.

- How the camel meat can it be better than the duck meat, chicken, chicks, the partridges, birds sori, the pigeons ...

- Whether you cook the chicken with water and salt, and we cook the camel meat with water and salt, and you'll see the difference between the two meats.

- And how dare you say that the camel carries heavier loads than the elephant, while the elephant carries loads several badger?

- That an elephant and a camel hut hut, and the elephant tries to carry the load of the camel, well, if he gets up with, I admit that it was he who carries the heaviest load! ...

To go further:

• The page devoted to the camel and the elephant (which I already quoted this anecdote of Jahiz): http://pagesperso-orange.fr / patrick.nadia / chameau_-_%% 8El 8Ephant.html

• page "camel or dromedary, to better understand the origin of these terms and their true meaning: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/patrick.nadia/chameau_ou_dromadaire_% 3F.html
  

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is the title of a delightful little book that is not less. Published in 2008 in the small and pleasant collection "A Thousand and One Nights," this is the translation of an ancient Greek joke book (original title: Philologos ).

Like our jokes today, it There are some very funny, disappointing, and rather vulgar. Without further comment and just for fun, I give you my favorites:

For information, what the translator Arnaud Zucker translated as "intellectual" is the Greek word "scholasticos"

• is an intellectual who meets one of his friends and said: "I heard you were dead. "The other replied:" But you see I'm alive! - Frankly, the first replica, the one who told me was much more reliable than you. "(22)

• An intellectual, a night, up on his grandmother. This earned him beaten by his father. "But," cried he, "that a very long time, you, you sleep with my mother, and I've never done anything. And you get angry like this the first time you see me on yours! "(45)

• is an intellectual who is in Athens and wrote a letter to his father. Quite proud of the education he is now acquired, it is a postscript: "I hope you find my return, within the scope of a charge punishable by death penalty, to show you as I know plead ... "(54)

• is an intellectual who, learning that a staircase has twenty steps to climb, wondering if there is as much about the descent. (93)

• is an incompetent teacher who is asked: "How did they call the mother of Priam? - We, certainly, "replied the teacher who knows nothing of respect we say" Mrs. "" (197)

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Wizard last Friday at a representation Carnival of the Animals , Camille Saint-Saens (1886), punctuated by brilliant and funny text written by Francis Blanche (in the 1950s, I think) to accompany him, I burst out laughing at this passage:

"special kind of museum they

Gentlemen fossil

The iguanodon the megatheriums,

The pterodactyls, ichthyosaurs,

Nebuchadnezzar!

And other treasures

the old days

are just coming.

To take air,

The Quaternary, of course! "

The name" Nebuchadnezzar ", my dear Babylonian king (reigned 604-562 BC. JC) seemed indeed marry perfectly with the names"-saurus "monsters of remote antiquity.

This joke made me want to take a stroll around the two etymological roots which are both pronounced "zor" and have nothing to do with each other - or with Zorro!

The "-saurus" of ichthyosaur from the Greek "sauros" = "lizard". The ichthyosaur is a "fish-lizard", the dinosaur a "terrible lizard" brontosaurus and a "thunder lizard."

The "-sor" of Nebuchadnezzar comes from the Akkadian "wear". One we call "Nebuchadnezzar" and the English call "Nebuchadnezzar" specifically called "Nabu kudurri attrition", which means "Nabu (Babylonian god), protects my offspring! "Tear" means "Protects".

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drooling camel does not reach the streets of Paris

I would have liked - but I could not - participate in the great demonstration of Education which was held last Saturday (January 30), for a lot reasons too numerous to mention here, why do not also affect both the National Education that all public services (hospitals, postal services, transport, etc..), which is being to sacrifice the last few years on the altar of profitability.

But listening to the radio at night, I even regretted not being able to be present learning that led the demonstration walked slowly ... a camel! My pet! Indeed, the brave animal was suitable for several puns tasty, two of them inscribed on placards hung on his back: "The success of our students should not remain a mirage. "And" Ministers come and go, teachers bossent "(both pun on" hump "and parody of the proverb" The dogs bark, the caravan passes. "), And the latter expressed AFP by Gilles Moindrot, Secretary-General of SNUipp FSU (the main union primary): "It symbolizes the dry regime, which applies to the National Education .

In searching the internet for more detailed information (and a picture of the famous camel), I engaged in some bitter reflections are summarized below.

The same text, two paragraphs, describing the presence of the camel head event, appears in more than a dozen different sites and blogs without there ever reference to a source. I know, I know it's commonplace on the internet, but this is the first time I saw this practice so much scale.

amusing little anecdote about this: the title changed from "The camel brave the cold, the teachers also" to "The Camel drool cold, teachers too." Minimal effort or originality somewhat grotesque mistake?

Second shocking finding: several of these blogs and comments on a website dedicated to the protection of animals, it is outraged by the treatment that has been inflicted on this poor camel, or even his " Operations "(with some deviations such as:" When you see the treatment that teachers are doing to animals, we understand that they are doing to the students!). Some

then arise the question, very welcome, whether it is a Bactrian camel (or "Asian" or "humps") or a dromedary (or camel of Arabia "or" bump "), arguing that the former are well accustomed to the freezing cold it was in Paris last Saturday while the latter, poor cabbages tend to have the habit of cooking 50 °. Nobody, however, provided the answer. In fact, under the broad banner "SNUipp" difficult to distinguish whether it is hiding a bump or two, but head of our hairy friend makes me rather look for a Bactrian camel. Even though it would have been a camel or Arabian camel, they are also accustomed to extreme cold at night in the deserts of Sahara and Arabia. But above all the question seems absurd union members have not flown to Abu Dhabi to bring back a camel! It is obvious that this animal lives in France, probably in the Paris region, there is even born, and he does not live in greenhouses during the winter. I do not see what it changed for him to walk the streets of Paris rather than the park. A little less grass to graze, perhaps? We bet we can stay longer without grass in the Gobi Desert that during the few hours of an event of National Education!

Past the issue of cold, I do not see what use we could talk. The burden of placards and banners as seen in the photo seems laughable compared to loads monster that camels carry easily in their regions of origin ...

This whole story reminds me of a beautiful passage from the novel by Michel Tournier, La Goutte d'Or : Idriss, the hero, having played as an extra in a advertising which also included a camel (which, for once, is a camel), and to lead to the slaughter (it will end happily for the Jardin d'Acclimation), runs through Paris with his camel ...

"The silhouette ridiculous and sorry that arise in the gray dawn and rainy Paris amaze passersby and annoyed the policemen. Michel Tournier.