Mathieu Laine is the author of “We must save the free world” (Plon, 2019).
Two thousand years separate us from Ovid.
His words, however, speak to us without friction.
Magic of literature.
As it is revealed to us in the luminous and greedy essay that the academician Xavier Darcos devotes to him at Fayard, the poet makes each string of our contemporary harps vibrate.
Among the infinity of themes envisaged by the Roman patrician, the reader of the twenty-first century will be fascinated to rediscover the weight of moralism, the temptation to rewrite the past, the lost enjoyment of once triumphant freedoms, the suspicious desire for eroticism, the prohibition of blasphemy, the weight of superstitions, conformist censorship or the ineluctable melancholy of an existence struck by public arbitrariness.
So many pillars of a universal work.
So many reasons to immerse ourselves, today, in the writings of an author prominently featured in the pantheon of the Ancients.
To read also:
Homer, Virgil, Ovid: why read the classics?
Born in 43 BC and died in 17 AD, Ovid
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