“
To the unexpected the gods give way
”
: it is this verse from Euripides, which ends several of his plays, that Sylviane Agacinski wanted to engrave on her academic sword.
Allusion to the theater which was the secret passion of his life.
Way of reminding, on the weapon of the Immortal that it has become, the beautiful lesson of the Greeks to mortals: there is always something in their destiny which escapes their power and their calculations.
A life lesson, too: the unexpected, for her, was this entry into the French Academy.
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By giving passage to Sylviane Agacinski yesterday, the gods of the Dome welcomed into their Olympus a great lady, who combines conceptual clarity, finesse of language and the courage without which thought is only a game of thought. spirit.
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