Libanios et la terre : discours et idéologie politique / Panagiotes Doukelles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doukellis, Panagiotis N., 1959- author.

Series:

Bibliothèque archéologique et historique ; 1453.

Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique ; 145.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Greek literature.

Latin literature.

Libanius--Criticism and interpretation.

Libanius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Presses de l'Ifpo 1995

France : Presses de l'Ifpo, 1995

Language Note:

French

System Details:

text file

Summary:

While Libanios was content to praise the countryside in his teaching and classes, his speeches, firmly linked to everyday life, present reality differently. It is all of these passages that have been the subject of our study and that we have called the discourse of rural realities. Perhaps this crucial point should be emphasized. The real subject of the Lebanese discourse, to which in fact all the information the speaker gives us about the campaign, is the survival of his city and, more importantly, its greatness. These necessarily go through the control of the rural territory of the city.For Libanios, the interdependence between the urban center and the countryside of Antioch is absolute, it constitutes a socio-political and economic system which must remain autonomous, in particular vis-à-vis other political forces which, like the Empire, want to break its unity. Libanios thus perceives his time as a period of transition, a turning point, when the Antiochene moved from one type of social relationship to another. His speeches, better than any other source, reflect the fear of a class losing its prerogatives. Because, precisely, if city and countryside form a compact whole, they remain in fact distinct realities, whose interests diverge and oppose each other. The urban center is the seat of political power, the place of residence of landowners: as such, it has always sought to dominate the countryside.Libanios lives and works during an age of transformation and social conflict. He is aware of it; his protests are those of a member of the ruling class who measures changes in society. Reading his writings, especially his words about land, peasants and agricultural production, one can see the transition from one way of life to another. The speaker of Antioch belongs to a generation which sees, to the detriment of the πόλις, the birth of new social, economic and cultural relations, as well as the definitive transfer of political power to the seat of the Empire.

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ISBN:

9782351594872