Vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienne

Some ancient Greek authors developed oxymoronic images of suckling old men and senescent infants, assigning positive and / or negative values to them. These images appear in texts dealing with the End of a World (at a time of natural disaster) or the permanent End of...

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Main Author: Christine Dumas-Reungoat
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2002-12-01
Series:Kentron
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1950
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spelling doaj-7fa306b556fe4256ab00f56eae30932d2020-11-24T21:47:27ZfraPresses universitaires de CaenKentron0765-05902264-14592002-12-0118556810.4000/kentron.1950Vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienneChristine Dumas-ReungoatSome ancient Greek authors developed oxymoronic images of suckling old men and senescent infants, assigning positive and / or negative values to them. These images appear in texts dealing with the End of a World (at a time of natural disaster) or the permanent End of the World at periods when the cosmos speeds up and unheard-of havoc is wrought. These patterns can be understood to be part of the adynaton theme, often present in these myths where they are prodromes of the inconceivable mayhem that the gods – or God – unleash upon the universe.http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1950
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author Christine Dumas-Reungoat
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Vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienne
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author_facet Christine Dumas-Reungoat
author_sort Christine Dumas-Reungoat
title Vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienne
title_short Vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienne
title_full Vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienne
title_fullStr Vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienne
title_full_unstemmed Vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienne
title_sort vieillards nourrissons et nourrissons sénescents dans la littérature grecque ancienne
publisher Presses universitaires de Caen
series Kentron
issn 0765-0590
2264-1459
publishDate 2002-12-01
description Some ancient Greek authors developed oxymoronic images of suckling old men and senescent infants, assigning positive and / or negative values to them. These images appear in texts dealing with the End of a World (at a time of natural disaster) or the permanent End of the World at periods when the cosmos speeds up and unheard-of havoc is wrought. These patterns can be understood to be part of the adynaton theme, often present in these myths where they are prodromes of the inconceivable mayhem that the gods – or God – unleash upon the universe.
url http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1950
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