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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.