Les préverbes a)na- et kata- sont souvent considérés comme un couple complémentaire, parce qu’avec des verbes de déplacement a)na- marque un mouvement vers le haut et kata- un mouvement vers le bas. Ces deux préverbes ont pourtant eu des emplois très variés qui dépassent largement l’emploi spatial.L’étude des composés présents dans les oeuvres d’Homère, Hésiode et Hérodote permet d’identifier les connotations essentielles associées à ces préverbes dès les premiers textes. A défaut de pouvoir identifier une Urbedeutung, il est possible de comprendre comment le sens de ces préverbes a évolué d’un sens concret vers des emplois plus abstraits. L’étude successive de ces deux composés, en établissant des catégories de significations parmi les verbes, nous per-met découvrir un certain nombre de sèmes qui semblent constitutifs de chacun des deux préverbes. Cela nous montre que le préverbe a)na- est surtout associé à des verbes de mouvement, alors que le préverbe kata- est davantage lié à des verbes statifs ou qui évoquent un processus de destruction.La question de la valeur aspectuelle de ces préverbes est aussi un élément fondamental. L’étude de ces deux préverbes permet de comprendre comment ils ont pu tous les deux acquérir une valeur aspectuelle pour souligner notamment l’accomplissement du procès. Cependant, on constate qu’ils ne correspondent pas au même accomplissement, puisqu’a)na- dénote un accomplissement créatif, tandis que kata- souligne le plus souvent l’accomplissement d’un processus de disparition. / The preverbs a)na- et kata- are usually considered as a couple, because for motion verbs a)na- bears an up motion and kata- a down motion. These two preverbs have nevertheless been employed variously and more widely than for merely spatial indications.Studying the compound verbs of the works of Homer, Hesiod and Herodotus allows us to identify the essential conno-tations linked to these preverbs since early literature. Even if we cannot find the Urbedeutung, it’s possible to unders-tand how the meaning of these preverbs has progressed from a concret meaning to an abstract. The ordered investiga-tion of these compound verbs, by distinguishing the different categories of meaning, help us discover some semantic classes which seem to be essential for each preverb. Thus we see that the preverb a)na- is mostly linked to motion verbs, whereas the preverb kata- is more combined with stative verbs or verbs which discribe a disappearance.The question of aspect for the preverbs is also fundamental. The study of these two preverbs allows us to understand how they could, both of them, own an aspectual value to emphazise the process accomplishment. But we can see that it’s not the same accomplishment, since a)na- indicates a creative accomplishment, while kata- most often highlights the accomplishment of a dying process.

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This thesis is a study of embedded song in ancient Greek narrative poetry. The introduction defines the terminology (embedded song is defined as the depiction of the performance of a poem within a larger poem, such as the songs of Demodocus in Homer’s Odyssey) and sets the study in the context of recent narratological work done by scholars of Classical literature. This section of the thesis also contains a brief discussion of embedded song in the Homeric epics, which will form the background of all later examples of the motif. Chapter 1 deals with embedded song in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod’s Theogony. It is argued that the occurrence of embedded song across these poems indicates that the motif is a traditional feature of early Greek hexameter poetry, while the possibility of “inter-textual” allusion between these poems is considered, but finally dismissed. Chapter 2 focuses on Pindar, Bacchylides and Corinna, and explores how lyric poets use this motif in the various sub-genres of Greek lyric. In epinician poetry, it is argued that embedded song is used as a strategy of praise and also to boost the authority of the poet-narrator by association with the embedded performers, who can be seen to have in each case a particular source of authority distinct from that of the poet narrator. Chapter 3 considers the Hellenistic poets Apollonius Rhodius and Theocritus, and how their interest in depicting oral poetry meshes with their identity as literate and literary poets. Appendix I gives a list of all the examples of embedded song I have found in Greek poetry. Appendix II gives an account of Pindar’s Hymn to Zeus, a highly fragmentary poem which almost certainly contained an embedded song, analysing this as an example of the difficulties thrown up by lyric fragments for a study of embedded narratives.

This report examines Porphyry’s De antro nympharum and its eclectic mixture of philosophy, allegory, and mysticism in the form of a Homeric commentary. The paper situates Porphyry’s commentary in the broader tradition of Homeric interpretation with special attention to Stoic exegesis and Platonic views on poetry and myth. It also contextualizes Porphyry’s philosophy in terms of the mystery cults, particularly Mithraism, that had grown very popular by Porphyry’s time. The paper argues that Porphyry devised a practice of reading intended to promote a level of philosophical contemplation beyond the level of rational discourse, in keeping with the Neoplatonic philosophy of his teacher, Plotinus, and that this practice is especially evident in the De antro nympharum. / text

This is a study of autobiographical letters written in the early 1950s by seven Swedish sailors. The letters were contributions to a project at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm aiming to collect and publicize workers' autobiographical narratives. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how the sailors composed their narratives in dialogue not only with heroic epics and other oral and written literary traditions but also with folklore studies and with contemporary public conversations about Sweden. According to Bachtin, any given text must be understood as a dialogue with the entire history of literature and the analysis in this study shows that the sailors' narratives are composed according to the pattern of the returning Homeric hero: the hero by destiny, the hero by action, and the hero by tradition. In terms of contents the letters are centered on two major themes: the two world wars and the transformation of Sweden from a poor rural society into a modern well-fare state. These themes are dramatized in plots, test-conflicts, motifs, and motif-complexes (functions, motiphemes), well-known from oral traditions and classical drama. An experiment in which two of the letters are subjected to “ethnopoetic transcription” shows the nature and extent of the oral idiom used by the writers. Two other writers display their literary ambitions through an abundance of paraphrases and hidden quotations. For the museum staff, the sailors' contributions were problematic. The verbal artistry of the writers challenged assumptions that workers' life narratives should be “simple and ingenious descriptions” and transparent sources of ethnological data. Furthermore, the sailors' frankness about Sweden's and their own part in the world wars challenged the myth of the neutrality and peacefulness of the Swedish folkhem.

L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier le rôle et la fonction de la gymnastique dans la tradition de la pensée classique. En établissant le contexte, dans lequel Platon et Aristote travaillent et développent leur avis sur la gymnastique, on comprend qu’il y a trois types de gymnastique dans la tradition grecque. Ces trois types sont la gymnastique militaire, qui s’associe aux épopées homériques, la gymnastique athlétique, qui s’associe aux odes pindariques et la gymnastique médicale, qui s’associe au corpus hippocratique. Platon et Aristote reprennent les catégories déjà existantes, en élaborant le concept de chaque catégorie reprise. Platon incorpore la gymnastique dans le programme éducatif, mais il rejette la gymnastique athlétique. Hippocrate influence la pensée du philosophe athénien, qui utilise bien des éléments de la gymnastique médicale. La gymnastique possède le pouvoir de fortifier le thymique. Platon condamne chaque excès à propos de la gymnastique, parce que ce manque de modération cultive le thymique, provoquant des déséquilibres psychologiques et civiques. La gymnastique joue un rôle essentiel dans le processus vers la Forme du Beau, dans la mesure où elle s’associe directement à la beauté corporelle qui déclenche ce processus d’ascension vers l’Idée du Κάλλος. Aristote incorpore aussi la gymnastique dans le programme de formation de « la cité la meilleure ». Aristote prend grand soin de la condition corporelle des enfants, montrant en quelque sorte les résultats négatifs de la gymnastique immodérée. Il critique ainsi la gymnastique athlétique, tandis qu’il souligne que la gymnastique militaire excessive conduit à la détérioration sociopolitique. / The purpose of this thesis is to study the role and the function of gymnastike in the tradition of Classical Greek thought. Studying the context in which Plato and Aristotle developed their ideas concerning gymnastike, we comprehend that there are three types of gymnastike in Greek tradition, the military gymnastike (related to the Homeric epics), the athletic gymnastike (related to the Pindaric odes) and the medical gymnastike (related to the Hippocratic corpus). Plato and Aristotle revisit and elaborate these categories. Plato incorporates gymnastike into his educational program, but he rejects the athletic gymnastike. Hippocrates influences Plato, who seems to utilize many elements of this type (medical gymnastike). It seems that gymnastike has the ability to fortify the thymic part of the soul, nevertheless, Plato condems every excessive use of gymnastike, since this lack of moderation cultivates the thymic part, provoking psychological and civic imbalances. Gymnastike is an important factor regarding the “ascension” towards the Form of Beauty (Κάλλος). Equally, Aristotle incorporates gymnastike in his educational program. He takes great care to protect children’s physical condition, indicating in a way the negative aspects of immoderate gymnastike. Thus, he criticizes the athletic gymnastike. Aristotle underlines that the excessive use of military gymnastike leads to a socio-political deterioration.

L'analyse de l'interprétation proclienne de la critique de Platon envers Homère, qui se situe à l'intérieur de la «récupération» de la tradition archaïque par le néoplatonisme, est conduite sur deux niveaux herméneutiques, l'un linguistique, l'autre esthétique. La lecture du texte proclien, notamment du Commentaire du Cratyle et des Dissertations Ve et VIe du Commentaire de la République, montre parallèlement comment l'activité assimilatrice, par laquelle un homme donne des noms aux choses et un poète construit des images des dieux, rend le langage et la poésie des activités entièrement intégrées dans le système des relations analogiques qui sont à la base de la structure hiérarchique de la métaphysique proclienne. Grâce à leur nature mimétique le nom et le symbole mythique sont des éléments d'union et d'appartenance de l'humain au divin et pourtant ils peuvent être nommés «mesure du divin». La distribution du réel dans les différents niveaux de l'être permet à l'exégète néo-platonicien de décrire la production poétique comme analogue à celle démiurgique et les voiles symboliques, visiblement obscènes, comme analogues à la procession des ordres divins du Premier Dieu. C'est à partir de cette perspective que, en parfaite harmonie avec la configuration triadique et sérielle du Tout, on peut lire le schéma tripartite défini par Proclus à la fin de la sixième Dissertation comme une distinction entre trois niveaux d'activité poétique et non, comme la plus récente littérature critique a interprété, en trois types de poésie. / The study of Proclean interpretation of Plato's critique to Homer, which is set in the neo-Platonic revival of archaic tradition, is conducted according to two interpretation's levels defined very well, the first one linguistic and the second one other aesthetic. The reading of the Proclean text, in particular the Commentary on the Cratylus and the V and VI Dissertations of the Commentary on the Republic, shows side by side how the assimilative activity, by which a man names things and a poet constructs images of the gods, makes language and poetry activities fully incorporated with the system of analogic relations on which is based the hierarchical structure of Proclean metaphysics. Through their mimetic nature, the name and the mythical symbol are elements of union and tie of the men to the divine and so they can be said «proportion of the divine». The distribution of the real on different levels of the being allows the neo-Platonic exegete to describe the poetic production as an analogous to the demiurgical one and therefore the symbolic veils, visibly obscene, as an analogous to the procession of the divine orders from the First God. It is from this perspective that, in a perfect agreement with the triadic and serial configuration of the Whole, we can read the tripartite schema defined by Proclus at the end of the Sixth Dissertation as a distinction among three levels of poetic activity and not, such as required by the most recent critical literature, in three types of poetry.

Si Marivaux est connu pour son analyse des sentiments et de la métaphysique du coeur, ses personnages, dotés d’une vie intérieure complexe, ont aussi un corps. Afin de proposer une lecture méthodique et transversale du corps, nous prenons comme corpus de départ l’intégralité des oeuvres de Marivaux, sans distinction de genre ni d’époque. Il en ressort qu’il n’y a pas un corps marivaudien, unique et systématique qui traverserait toutes les oeuvres marivaudiennes sans être affecté par le contexte de production, mais des corps qui correspondent à des époques et à des choix d’écriture. Pour établir ces ensembles génériques et chronologiques, nous nous intéressons aux particularités des différents genres littéraires (roman, théâtre, périodique, travestissement burlesque etc.) pratiqués par Marivaux et au contexte de production des oeuvres marivaudiennes (la seconde Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, le renouvellement de l’Académie royale des sciences et le contexte philosophique de la diffusion de la théorie empiriste de Locke). / If Marivaux is primarily renowned for his in-depth analysis of feelings and his metaphysics of the heart, his characters, who have a complex inner life, also have a body. In order to offer a methodical and horizontal reading of the body, we focus on all of Marivaux’s works, without distinction of literary genre or period. There appears to be no standardized or systematic representation of the body spanning all Marivaux’s works without being influenced by the context of production, but rather, various bodies whose characteristics are informed by periods and choices of writing. In order to define these generic and chronological groupings, we explore the features of the different literary genres (novel, theater, periodical, burlesque travesty, etc.) used by Marivaux and the context of his works (Homeric Warfare, the renewal of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and the growing influence of Locke’s theory of empiricism).

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