In her autobiography, Isadora Duncan recalled an assertion made by Karl Federn: "Only by Nietzsche, he said, will you come to the full revelation of dancing expression as you seek it" (Duncan 1995, 104). Duncan also told her students to read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, as if it was their "Bible" (Duncan 1928, 108). These statements justify an examination of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy as an imperative source for understanding the depth of her dance philosophy. This dissertation asks what it means to see Duncan's philosophy of dance and its practice in the context of this nineteenth-century German philosopher. It examines Nietzsche's words and ideas about the birth of tragedy and how they become body in the writings and dance of Isadora Duncan. This dissertation focuses on the philosophical idea of the "tragic idea" according to Nietzsche's and Duncan's interpretations and applications of philosophy bodied forth in dance. This tragic idea comes from an emerging idea in intellectual history initiated by followers of Kant. The idea of drawing from Greek tragedy a philosophy that could be used in philosophical thought to debate the meaning and function of art and even life was particular to German thinkers, philosophers and literati. While it drew from Greek tragic plays a philosophy, German thought on tragedy differed from the ancients in that it was applied as a philosophy for life. The ideas on Greek tragedy that Nietzsche situates his own within were developed within and against the Romantic aesthetic. The characteristics of Romantics provide context for understanding the use of tragedy as a source for thought and art. Although Nietzsche came to oppose aspects of Romanticism, his first book was in part a dialogue with German Romantic thought and aesthetics. Nietzsche's idea of tragic philosophy in his The Birth of Tragedy is examined in precedence to Duncan's use of his book. This dissertation provides an historical contextualization of the idea of a tragic philosophy to show that Duncan's choice to base her dance philosophy on Nietzsche's tragic philosophy follows this historical philosophical thread. As Nietzsche both dedicated The Birth of Tragedy to Wagner and based the book on Wagner's interpretation of Greek tragedy (Williamson 2004, 238), and Duncan wrote on and danced to Wagner, Wagner is relevant within the specific context of understanding Duncan's dance as a philosophical practice of The Birth of Tragedy. This dissertation, then, looks into Duncan's writings as a way to read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, and through these texts to interpret some aspects alive within the Romantic mood. In addition, this dissertation incorporates as part of both the literature and the analysis of Duncan's moving image, an embodied voice of personal experience from its writer, who has practiced this dance intimately. I weave my personal experience into the dissertation, using my experience in dancing within this dance form to reflect on the ideas presented here. The tragic idea as I see it within this movement drives the dancer's ideas about dance as an expressive art form. A tragic philosophy/wisdom motivates the imagination, the range of emotional expression and the physical body as it shapes and moves itself in, through and around space. A tragic sensibility represents a quality of investigation about the range of human experience that happens in and from out of the body. It comes from deep within the body's inner space and emotional and physical aliveness. It is an idea that the dancer is conscious of and actively engaged in as a process of dancing (for oneself) and making dance (as performative). / Dance

La présente recherche porte sur le dieu de la guerre des Grecs anciens, Arès. La communauté historienne s’entend pour affirmer qu’Arès était un dieu de second ordre et un dieu mal aimé par les Grecs de l’époque. Les investigations des historiens du XXe siècle sont axées sur les documents littéraires et elles ne font que reformuler, dans la majorité des cas, le contenu de ceux-ci. Alors, afin de bénéficier d’un regard nouveau sur le dieu, on a étudié Arès au travers les documents épigraphiques pour corroborer ou non nos présentes connaissances. Le dieu de la guerre tel que présenté dans les écrits littéraires est-il le même que celui qui est véhiculé dans l’épigraphie de l’époque? La réponse à cette question nous permettra d’établir si nos connaissances actuelles sont valables et elle les complètera. La recherche épigraphique s’effectue en cinq étapes. D’abord, on voit si le côté militaire d’Arès était également prédominant au sein des inscriptions. Ensuite, on porte une attention particulière aux documents épigraphiques pouvant démontrer un Arès mal aimé. Le tout se poursuit avec la mise en relation du dieu et des anciens serments. Enfin, on termine avec une approche plus géographique qui nous permet de définir deux foyers importants du dieu de la guerre, soit la cité de Métropolis et l’île de Crète. À la suite de ce parcours on a déterminé que l’appréciation et l’importance que les Grecs accordaient à ce dieu n’était pas unanime. Le ressentiment des Grecs variaient selon les individus et les lieux. On a aussi été capable d’établir des faits au sujet d’Arès : son domaine d’action prédominant restait le militaire dans les inscriptions; il était un réel dieu, présent, respecté et loué; il possédait d’importants lieux de culte à Lato et Métropolis. Compte tenu d’une redéfinition notable du profil d’Arès, une révision des sources littéraires propres à Arès s’impose ainsi qu’une évaluation complète de toutes les autres sources (iconographique, archéologique, numismatique, épigraphique, etc.). / This study talks about the god of war for the ancient Greeks, Ares. The historical community asserts that Ares was a god of second order and unloved by the Greeks of this period. Investigations of historians of XXe century are focus on literary sources and they simply restate, in most cases, the content of them. To gain a new perspective on the god, Ares was studied through the epigraphic documents to corroborate or not our present knowledge. We want to know if the Ares, as presented in the literature, has been the same as that was transmitted in the ancient Greek epigraphy. The answer to this question will help us to see if our current knowledge is right and deepening it. The epigraphic research is done in five steps. First, we determine whether the military side of Ares was also predominant in the inscriptions. Then we pay a specific attention to documents that propose an unloved Ares in the epigraphy. After, we establish some links between the former oath and Ares. Finally, we close the epigraphic study with a geographic approach who allows us to determine two important sites that belong to the god of war, the city of Metropolis and the island of Crete. Through this process we were able to determine the appreciation and the importance, which the Greeks gave to this god, were not unanimous. The resentment of the Greeks varied among individuals and places. We were also able to establish some facts about Ares : his dominant sphere remained the military in the inscriptions; he was a reel god, present, respected and praised; he possessed important places of worship in Lato and Metropolis. In conclusion, we redefine Ares profile, so it would be interesting that a research reviews the literacy sources about him. Furthermore, an evaluation of all the sources (iconographic, archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic etc…) would also be appropriated.

The treatise On the sacred disease is one of the oldest works included in the Hippocratic corpus and one of the finest examples of the Greek rationalism. Considered to be written in the last decades of the 5th century BC it is concerned with the issue of epilepsy, the disease called "sacred" by magicians and wandering cathartic priests that the author denotes as mere charlatans. According to him, epilepsy is no way more sacred nor more divine than other sicknesses, he places its origin into the brain and claims that it is a hereditary illness. In the introductory study, the character and the structure of the treatise are outlined, it is argued that it was delivered as a speech, the issues of the datation, autorship, reception and textual tradition are discussed. The study is followed by the first translation of the Sacred disease into Czech. In the extensive commentary, apart of the explanation of the text, many problems such as the author's conception of the divine, his sources and some other theoretical issues discussed by scholars are presented and their solution is proposed.

La thèse relative au thème ‘‘finances publiques et richesses privées en Grèce aux époques classique et hellénistique’’ pose la problématique des relations et des corrélations entre les richesses privées et les finances publiques dans les cités et les royaumes du monde grec. Durant cette longue période, d’une part les richesses privées se constituèrent indépendamment des finances publiques par les rentes tirées de la location de certains biens, de l’exploitation minière, du commerce et des activités bancaires. En outre, par le travail intellectuel, la divination et le sport. D’autre part, les richesses privées se seraient formées aux dépens des finances publiques par la corruption et la malversation auxquelles les magistrats grecs se seraient adonnés lors de l’exercice de leurs charges. Les richesses qui furent ainsi constituées d’une manière ou d’une autre ne servirent pas seulement à l’usage privé. Elles servirent également aux finances publiques pour palier des pénuries financières, approvisionner en grain, financer des guerres, construire ou reconstruire des édifices, payer des tributs ou des rançons, faire des sacrifices, accomplir des ambassades et fournir de l’huile aux gymnases. Dès lors, les Etats grecs eurent recours à la contrainte par l’imposition du tribut, la pratique des confiscations et des prêts contraignants ainsi que la levée des taxes, des amendes et des impôts. Par ailleurs, les Etats grecs firent aussi appel à l’évergétisme des plus riches de leurs populations qui manifestèrent leur générosité lors des épidoseis, des prêts à souscription publique et des évergésies individuels. / Thesis on the theme '' public finances and private wealth in Greece in Classical and Hellenistic periods '' raises the issue of the relationships and correlations between private wealth and public finances in the cities and kingdoms of the Greek world. During this long period, on the one hand the private wealth were formed independently of public finances by rents from the leasing of certain assets, by mining, trade and banking. In addition, by the intellectual work divination and sport. On the other hand, private wealth would have formed at the expense of public finances by corruption and embezzlement that Greek judges would have indulged in the exercise of their charges. The wealth that were thus formed in one way or another did not serve only for private use. They also served the public finances to overcome financial shortages , grain supply , finance wars , build or rebuild buildings, pay tribute or ransom , make sacrifices , perform embassies and supplying oil to gyms . Therefore, the Greek states had recourse to coercive imposition of tribute, the practice of confiscation and binding and the removal of taxes loans, fines and taxes. Moreover, the Greek states also appealed to the evergetism of the richest people who demonstrated their generosity during épidoseis, public subscriptions’ loans and individual evergetisms.

Les interactions culturelles dans la Méditerranée ancienne sont de plus en plus au centre des études sur l’Antiquité. Ce travail s’intéresse en particulier aux reflets des contacts entre la Mésopotamie et la Grèce anciennes dans la production littéraire. Sujet central et fil conducteur de la recherche est la temporalité narrative qui structure les textes littéraires, en particulier les compositions poétiques à sujet mythologique. La reconstruction proposée de la découverte de la Mésopotamie de la part de l’Occident moderne et contemporain permet de mettre en lumière les orientations idéologiques et les incohérences méthodologiques qui ont souvent biaisé l’interprétation et la systématisation des sources cunéiformes. Ce travail présente une synthèse et une réorganisation des « dimensions du temps » en Mésopotamie, dans une perspective de comparaison critique avec les analyses développées sur ces mêmes questions pour la Grèce. Le poème akkadien d’Erra a été sélectionné comme cas d’étude, en raison de son articulation narrative complexe, dans laquelle la composante temporelle est particulièrement significative pour la construction syntaxique et pour l’exégèse du texte même. Son analyse permet par la suite de développer un « parcours thématique guidé » à travers une série d’exemples choisis dans la production littéraire grecque des époques archaïque et classique, de l’épopée aux discussions philosophiques, jusqu’à la tragédie, afin de montrer que les parallélismes établis avec le poème d’ Erra révèlent l’encodage littéraire d’un « système de pensée » partagé. / The cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean are becoming ever more important in the studies on ancient times. This research focuses on the effects of the contacts between ancient Mesopotamia and Greece on literary texts. Narrative temporality, particularly in mythological poems, is the central argument and theme. The reconstruction here made of the discovery of Mesopotamia by the modern and contemporary Western culture allows shedding lights on the ideological orientations and the methodological incoherence which often distorted the interpretation and systematisation of cuneiform sources. This research proposes a synthesis and a reorganisation of the « dimensions of time » in Mesopotamia, in comparison with the same analyses on ancient Greece. The Akkadian poem of Erra has been chosen as case study, because of the complexity of its narrative, in which the temporal element is particularly relevant for the syntactic reconstruction and the exegesis of the text itself. Furthermore, the analysis of this text allows the development of a « thematic guided journey » through a series of literary examples from archaic and classical Greece, from epic to philosophy and to the tragedy, to show that the parallelisms with the Erra poem exemplify the literary coding of a « common way of thinking ». / Le interazioni culturali nel Mediterraneo antico sono sempre più al centro degli studi sull’Antichità. Questa ricerca si interessa ai riflessi dei contatti tra la Mesopotamia e la Grecia antiche nella produzione letteraria: argomento centrale e filo conduttore è la temporalità narrativa che struttura i testi letterari, in particolar modo le composizioni poetiche di soggetto mitologico. La ricostruzione qui proposta della scoperta della Mesopotamia da parte dell’Occidente moderno e contemporaneo permette di mettere in luce gli orientamenti ideologici e le incoerenze metodologiche che hanno spesso distorto l’interpretazione e la sistematizzazione della documentazione cuneiforme. Una sintesi e una riorganizzazione delle « dimensioni del tempo » in Mesopotamia sono proposte in chiave di comparazione critica con le analisi svolte su questi stessi temi per la Grecia. Il poema akkadico di Erra è stato selezionato come caso di studio per via della sua articolazione narrativa complessa, nella quale l’elemento temporale è particolarmente rilevante per la costruzione sintattica e l’esegesi del testo stesso. La sua analisi permette inoltre di sviluppare un « percorso tematico guidato » attraverso una serie di esempi scelti nell’ambito della produzione letteraria greca di epoca arcaica e classica, dall’epopea alle argomentazioni filosofiche, fino alla tragedia, al fine di mostrare che i parallelismi stabiliti con il poema di Erra esemplificano la codificazione letteraria di un « sistema di pensiero condiviso ».

Omeros, le long poème du Saint-lucien Derek Walcott, est mis en relation avec le recueil Moi, laminaire... du Martiniquais Aimé Césaire et avec le roman Otra vez el mar du Cubain Reinaldo Arenas. Dans ces trois oeuvres, la focalisation sur la Grèce antique permet aux trois auteurs de réinvestir les paysages antillais. Cette pratique du détour constitue une esthétique antillaise commune : le passage par des motifs grecs donne lieu à des constructions textuelles originales de ces paysages antillais. Dans une première partie, nous étudions les stratégies mises en place pour montrer le paysage à partir de sculptures grecques et de personnages grecs incorporés aux paysages. Dans une seconde partie, nous montrons comment l'imaginaire grec nourrit l'art de la métaphore chez Walcott. Dans Omeros, l’artisanat de la pêche [coupe et fabrication des gommiers, sciage et évidage des troncs, navigation, pêche à la nasse] constitue une mise en abîme de la technique walcottienne. La fonction de la mer dans le roman Otra vez el mar confirme l'antillanité de la composition d’Omeros. Dans la troisième partie, nous étudions les relations entre discours et paysages. Chez Walcott, la mangrove permet le renouvellement de la mémoire antillaise de la traite. Chez Césaire, ce milieu lagunaire constitue une réponse métaphorique au contexte politique martiniquais. Enfin, dans Omeros, la représentation de l'oralité créole est associée au motif de la cendre et de la forêt saint-lucienne. Finalement, nous affirmons que la variété des procédés esthétiques chez Walcott se fonde sur la diversité des paysages antillais. / Omeros, the long poem written by the Saint-Lucian Derek Walcott is analyzed in relation with the poetic collection Moi, laminaire… by the Martiniquan Aimé Césaire and with the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas’s novel Otra Vez el mar. In their works, the focus on Ancient Greece enables the authors to reinvest the West Indian landscape. This common practice of the detour creates a common West Indian aesthetics: the use of Greek motifs gives birth to original textual constructions of Caribbean landscapes. In the first part, we are studying the strategies set up to portray the landscape through Greek sculptures and characters involved in the landscapes. In the second part, we are showing how the Greek imagination nurtures the art of the metaphor in Walcott’s work. In Omeros, the fishing craft [the cutting of the gommier trees, the sawing and the hollowing out of their trunks, for the building of the canoes, navigation and net fishing] reveals the techniques at work in Walcott’s writings. The function of the sea in Arenas’s novel confirms the West Indian aspect in the aesthetic process of Omeros. In the third part, the relations between discourse and landscapes are brought into light. In Walcott’s work the mangrove allows the renewal of the Caribbean memory of the slave trade. In Césaire’s work, this lagoon environment constitutes a metaphoric response to the Martiniquan political background. Then, in Omeros, the representation of creole orality is linked with the motif of the ashes and the Saint Lucian forest. Finally, we assert that the diversity of Caribbean landscape sets in motion Walcott’s poetics.

La présente recherche porte sur le dieu de la guerre des Grecs anciens, Arès. La communauté historienne s’entend pour affirmer qu’Arès était un dieu de second ordre et un dieu mal aimé par les Grecs de l’époque. Les investigations des historiens du XXe siècle sont axées sur les documents littéraires et elles ne font que reformuler, dans la majorité des cas, le contenu de ceux-ci. Alors, afin de bénéficier d’un regard nouveau sur le dieu, on a étudié Arès au travers les documents épigraphiques pour corroborer ou non nos présentes connaissances. Le dieu de la guerre tel que présenté dans les écrits littéraires est-il le même que celui qui est véhiculé dans l’épigraphie de l’époque? La réponse à cette question nous permettra d’établir si nos connaissances actuelles sont valables et elle les complètera. La recherche épigraphique s’effectue en cinq étapes. D’abord, on voit si le côté militaire d’Arès était également prédominant au sein des inscriptions. Ensuite, on porte une attention particulière aux documents épigraphiques pouvant démontrer un Arès mal aimé. Le tout se poursuit avec la mise en relation du dieu et des anciens serments. Enfin, on termine avec une approche plus géographique qui nous permet de définir deux foyers importants du dieu de la guerre, soit la cité de Métropolis et l’île de Crète. À la suite de ce parcours on a déterminé que l’appréciation et l’importance que les Grecs accordaient à ce dieu n’était pas unanime. Le ressentiment des Grecs variaient selon les individus et les lieux. On a aussi été capable d’établir des faits au sujet d’Arès : son domaine d’action prédominant restait le militaire dans les inscriptions; il était un réel dieu, présent, respecté et loué; il possédait d’importants lieux de culte à Lato et Métropolis. Compte tenu d’une redéfinition notable du profil d’Arès, une révision des sources littéraires propres à Arès s’impose ainsi qu’une évaluation complète de toutes les autres sources (iconographique, archéologique, numismatique, épigraphique, etc.). / This study talks about the god of war for the ancient Greeks, Ares. The historical community asserts that Ares was a god of second order and unloved by the Greeks of this period. Investigations of historians of XXe century are focus on literary sources and they simply restate, in most cases, the content of them. To gain a new perspective on the god, Ares was studied through the epigraphic documents to corroborate or not our present knowledge. We want to know if the Ares, as presented in the literature, has been the same as that was transmitted in the ancient Greek epigraphy. The answer to this question will help us to see if our current knowledge is right and deepening it. The epigraphic research is done in five steps. First, we determine whether the military side of Ares was also predominant in the inscriptions. Then we pay a specific attention to documents that propose an unloved Ares in the epigraphy. After, we establish some links between the former oath and Ares. Finally, we close the epigraphic study with a geographic approach who allows us to determine two important sites that belong to the god of war, the city of Metropolis and the island of Crete. Through this process we were able to determine the appreciation and the importance, which the Greeks gave to this god, were not unanimous. The resentment of the Greeks varied among individuals and places. We were also able to establish some facts about Ares : his dominant sphere remained the military in the inscriptions; he was a reel god, present, respected and praised; he possessed important places of worship in Lato and Metropolis. In conclusion, we redefine Ares profile, so it would be interesting that a research reviews the literacy sources about him. Furthermore, an evaluation of all the sources (iconographic, archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic etc…) would also be appropriated.

Aqui se explora a questão da apreensão do espaço do mundo conhecido no século V a.C, principalmente, a partir da obra do historiador grego Heródoto. Para isso parte-se da percepção do espaço do mundo, dividido em porções de acordo com uma cultura, a grega, para em seguida se estabelecer uma tipologia dos espaços do mundo, entendendo alguns momentos importantes da demarcação geográfica do planeta, dos povos e culturas. Num segundo momento a busca caminha para um tipo específico de espaço: aquele que é sacralizado pela cultura. Dessa forma entende-se que a cultura cria uma paisagem sagrada erigida a partir de lugares classificados através de uma tipologia que estabelecemos segundo a utilização do termo hieros e suas variantes, por Heródoto. Espaço sacralizado transformado em paisagem. No último momento, com base da tipologia do espaço sagrado, busca-se o sagrado entre Homero e Heródoto, entendendo as ligações como parte de um todo cultural de dois indivíduos que se preocupam em registrar o mundo, seus povos e culturas bem como as especificidades de suas relações com o meio em que vivem, mormente o sagrado. / Here the subject of the apprehension of the space of the known world is explored in the V century b.C., mainly, starting from the Greek historian's work Herodotus. For that begins of the perception of the space of the world, divided in portions in agreement with a culture, the Greek, for soon after to settle down a typology of the spaces of the world, understanding some important moments of the geographical demarcation of the planet, of the people and cultures. In a second moment the search bed for a specific type of space: that sacralizade for the culture. In that way understands each other that the culture creates a sacred landscape erected starting from places classified through of a typology that we established according to the use of the term hieros and your variants, by Herodotus. Sacred space transformed in sacred landscape. In the last moment, with base in the typology of the sacred space, the sacred is looked for between Homer and Herodotus, understanding the connections as part of an all cultural of two individuals that you/they worry in registering the world, our people and cultures as well as the specific details of your relationships with the sacred. (rever)

The thesis examines the religious topography of Arcadia through two particular aspects: the built and the natural landscape, and how each relates to human communities, their places of living, and their understanding of the world around. It relies on the assumption commonly made in the field that, since ritual practice was of prevalent importance for the Greeks, cult sites are the most important places for the communities, and therefore they can tell us a lot about the people who built, visited and looked after them. The first part rests on the acknowledgement that sanctuaries are places of interaction for a certain community of cult (which can but need not overlap with a given polis) and explores how they can be indicators of social change, defined here as responses to changes with large impact on the human milieu. These changes and their response articulated in sacred space are identified in four chapters. The first sets the stage and surveys the known sacred sites of Arcadia at the end of the Bronze Age and during the Early Iron Age. The second looks at how the building of temples after the eighth century indicates a significant change in the way communities were structured in Arcadia. The third looks at how Arcadian sanctuaries responded to the increased religious mobility of the Classical and Hellenistic period. Finally, chapter four evaluates the impact of the Roman conquest on Arcadian religious sites. The second part explores how myths and rationalising discourses allowed the Greeks to make sense of the salient characteristics and numen of their surrounding natural landscape. Each of the three chapters departs from a situation observed in Arcadia by ancient sources and examines the responses articulated to explain it. Among the variety of topics to pursue, three have been selected because they exemplify a typical characteristic of Arcadia: its wetness. They also allow spatial areas that were less prominent in part one to be explored. The first chapter investigates the attribution of Mycenaean waterworks in Arcadia to Herakles in myth. The second chapter examines the connection made in ancient sources between Poseidon's lordship over the Peloponnese, earthquakes, floods and cults of Poseidon Hippios in Arcadia. Finally, the last chapter explores the apparent contradiction of having infernal rivers observable in the world of the living, such as the Styx flowing in the Aroania Mountains.

Aqui se explora a questão da apreensão do espaço do mundo conhecido no século V a.C, principalmente, a partir da obra do historiador grego Heródoto. Para isso parte-se da percepção do espaço do mundo, dividido em porções de acordo com uma cultura, a grega, para em seguida se estabelecer uma tipologia dos espaços do mundo, entendendo alguns momentos importantes da demarcação geográfica do planeta, dos povos e culturas. Num segundo momento a busca caminha para um tipo específico de espaço: aquele que é sacralizado pela cultura. Dessa forma entende-se que a cultura cria uma paisagem sagrada erigida a partir de lugares classificados através de uma tipologia que estabelecemos segundo a utilização do termo hieros e suas variantes, por Heródoto. Espaço sacralizado transformado em paisagem. No último momento, com base da tipologia do espaço sagrado, busca-se o sagrado entre Homero e Heródoto, entendendo as ligações como parte de um todo cultural de dois indivíduos que se preocupam em registrar o mundo, seus povos e culturas bem como as especificidades de suas relações com o meio em que vivem, mormente o sagrado. / Here the subject of the apprehension of the space of the known world is explored in the V century b.C., mainly, starting from the Greek historian's work Herodotus. For that begins of the perception of the space of the world, divided in portions in agreement with a culture, the Greek, for soon after to settle down a typology of the spaces of the world, understanding some important moments of the geographical demarcation of the planet, of the people and cultures. In a second moment the search bed for a specific type of space: that sacralizade for the culture. In that way understands each other that the culture creates a sacred landscape erected starting from places classified through of a typology that we established according to the use of the term hieros and your variants, by Herodotus. Sacred space transformed in sacred landscape. In the last moment, with base in the typology of the sacred space, the sacred is looked for between Homer and Herodotus, understanding the connections as part of an all cultural of two individuals that you/they worry in registering the world, our people and cultures as well as the specific details of your relationships with the sacred. (rever)