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Marie Louis Antoine Gaston Boissier was born at Nimes, France on the 15th of August 1823.
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... Parmi ces légendes, il en est une qui a pour nous un intérêt particulier : cest celle des voyages dÉnée et de son arrivée en Italie. Elle a inspiré un grand poète, elle est le sujet de lun des chefs-duvre de la littérature antique. Si nous voulons juger ce bel ouvrage et nous rendre compte de loriginalité de lauteur, nous devons nous demander dabord ce que lui fournissait la tradition et ce quil a lui-même inventé. On affirme ordinairement que lEnéide est un poème national et que cest un de ses principaux mérites ; pour décider jusquà quel point cette affirmation est exacte, il faut bien que nous sachions doù venaient les fables qui rapportaient létablissement des Troyens dans le Latium, si elles étaient profondément entrées dans la mémoire du peuple, et ce que le poète, en les racontant, rappelait de souvenirs chez ceux qui lécoutaient : cest le seul moyen de connaître si son uvre a jamais été populaire. On voit donc que toute étude approfondie de lEnéide doit commencer par lexamen de la légende dÉnée...
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(English translation of Gaston Boissier sUA frique Romaine...)
English translation of Gaston Boissier sUA frique Romaine. Monsieur Boissier needs no introduction to anE nglish or American public. Those who have read his previous books are already familiar with the simplicity and clearness of the style, the picturesque descriptions of places and the vivid presentation of events which characterise Boissier swork, and have realised also that this work is based on a foundation of thorough scholarly knowledge. The present volume deals with that part of Africa which came under the direct domination of Rome. The author transports the reader to Carthage, whence, at will, he may wander across the great stretch of surrounding country, visit the smaller cities and towns, and study, in the light of their past history, their inhabitants, their customs, their language and literature, their mode of living, their government, and the ruins of their ancient monuments, many of which are still standing. I have followed for the spelling of the proper names the forms given by Heinrich Kiepert, Ph. D., in his Manual of Ancient Geography. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Voilà donc encore un changement grave dans notre enseignement public ! Je connais bien des gens qui seront disposés à sen plaindre. On fait aujourdhui à luniversité deux reproches tout à fait contraires : tandis que les uns laccusent dêtre routinière et de ne pas suivre assez docilement les progrès du siècle, dautres lui en veulent mortellement dabandonner les traditions anciennes et de faire trop de concessions à lesprit nouveau. Je crains bien que, depuis quelques années, nous nayons donné à ces derniers trop de raisons dêtre mécontents. Cest un grand danger de modifier sans cesse les programmes de nos écoles : on fatigue les élèves, on déconcerte les professeurs, on irrite les familles, on trouble lopinion, en passant aussi brusquement dun système à lautre, et en condamnant le lendemain ce quon approuvait la veille. Tout ce quon peut dire pour défendre luniversité, cest que, si le mal est réel, il nest pas nouveau ; voilà plus de quarante ans que nous en souffrons. Depuis lessai malheureux et maladroit que fit M. Fortoul du régime de la bifurcation, il ne se passe guère dannée où lon ne tente quelque réforme qui sera supprimée ou modifiée lannée suivante. Il nest donc pas juste de prétendre, comme on le fait, que cette épidémie dinnovations ne date que de 1880. Elle est lindice dun malaise qui remonte plus loin ; et, si, dans ces dernières années, les changements ont été plus fréquents et plus profonds, cest quil est dans la nature de toute espèce de maladie de saccroître et de saigrir par sa durée...
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Lexil dOvide est lun des événements les plus curieux et les plus obscurs de la fin du règne dAuguste. La cause en est restée très douteuse. Lédit impérial qui reléguait le poète aux extrémités du monde ne lui reprochait que davoir publié lArt daimer ; mais Rome savait bien que limmoralité de ses écrits nétait pas le seul motif de son châtiment. On disait quil avait commis envers lempereur une faute plus grave et plus personnelle. Malheureusement on le disait si bas que ces bruits ne sont pas venus distinctement jusquà nous ; aucun écrivain de lantiquité ne nous a révélé de quelle nature était cette faute. Le seul document qui nous reste, ce sont les ouvrages mêmes dOvide ; je trouve quils suffisent pour nous éclairer. Ceux quil a écrits pendant son séjour à Rome nous permettent dapprécier le motif officiel quon donnait à son exil. Ceux quil a composés plus tard peuvent nous en faire découvrir la cause secrète. Il faut les étudier les uns et les autres, si nous voulons essayer de résoudre ce problème historique...
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Efi III. PAOU The Catacombs 139-213 LT he importance wliich Chmtiaii Battaclied to snlture Hie Catacombs their work, and not old abandoned quarries How they were induced to hollow them oat Hypogea of different religions in the Roman Campagna Rnles adopted bj the Church for burial, 142-152 II. First impression produced by a visit to the Catacombs The immensity of these cities of the dead, and consequences to be drawn from it Rapid diffusion of Christianity Religion separates itself from the family and the country The Catacombe the most ancient monument of Christianity at Rome Mementoes of the times of persecution contained in them Mementoes of the days of triumph, 152-161 III. The inscriptions and paintings in the Catacombs Cliaracter of the most ancient inscriptions The birth of Christian art The first subjects treated by the artists of the Catacombs Imitation of antique types Reproduction of Christiansubjects Symbolism Origin of historical painting To what extent the Christian artists adhered to antique art, 162-177 IV. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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(Tacitus, andO ther Roman Studies was written by Gaston Bo...)
Tacitus, andO ther Roman Studies was written by Gaston Boissier in 1906. This is a 290 page book, containing 105246 words and 23 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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( ...Il y a deux positions très nettes quon peut prendre...)
...Il y a deux positions très nettes quon peut prendre quand on raconte lhistoire des origines chrétiennes, et qui rendent la tâche facile : tout croire ou tout nier. Le croyant résolu est toujours à son aise, rien ne lembarrasse ; toute explication lui suffit, ou plutôt les explications lui sont inutiles. Il passe auprès des difficultés sans les voir et lève les épaules quand on les lui montre. Il est clair que lhistoire entière du christianisme étant à ses yeux un miracle, les invraisemblances ne peuvent plus le choquer ; ce que les autres trouvent contraire à la raison humaine lui semble une manifestation nouvelle de la puissance divine : il néprouve donc aucun besoin de lexcuser ou de lexpliquer. De son côté, le sceptique absolu nest pas plus gêné que le croyant déterminé. Il a lui aussi un système commode et qui suffit à tout : dans lhistoire des origines chrétiennes tout lui semble erreur ou mensonge...
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Marie Louis Antoine Gaston Boissier was born at Nimes, France on the 15th of August 1823.
The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to the study of ancient history.
Boissier made epigraphy his particular theme, and at the age of twenty-three became a professor of rhetoric at Angouleme, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition. A travelling inspector of the university, however, happened to hear him lecture, and Boissier was called to Paris to be professor at the Lycee Charlemagne. He began his literary career by a thesis on the poet Attius (1857) and a study on the life and work of M. Terentius Varro (1861). In 1861 he was made professor of Latin oratory at the College de France, and he became an active contributor to the Revue des deux mondes. In 1865 he published Ciciron et ses amis (Eng. trans. by A. D. Jones, 1897), which has enjoyed a success such as rarely falls to the lot of a work of erudition. In studying the manners of ancient Rome, Boissier had learned to re-create its society and to reproduce its characteristics with exquisite vivacity. In 1874 he published La Religion romaine d'Auguste aux Antonins (2 vols. ), in which he analysed the great religious movement of antiquity that preceded the acceptance of Christianity. In L'Opposition sous les Césars (1875) he drew a remarkable picture of the political decadence of Rome under the early successors of Augustus. By this time Boissier had drawn to himself the universal respect of scholars and men of letters.
His later works include Promenades archéologiques: Rome et Pompéi (1880; second series, 1886); L'Afrique romaine, promenades archéologiques (1901); La Fin du paganisme (2 vols. , 1891); Le Conjuration de Catilina (1905); Tacite (1903, Eng. trans, by W. G. Hutchison, 1906). He was a representative example of the French talent for lucidity and elegance applied with entire seriousness to weighty matters of literature. Though he devoted himself mainly to his great theme, the reconstruction of the elements of Roman society, he also wrote monographs on Madame de Sévigné (1887) and Saint-Simon (1892). He died in June 1908.
( Voilà donc encore un changement grave dans notre enseig...)
( Lexil dOvide est lun des événements les plus curieux...)
(This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 18...)
(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
(Tacitus, andO ther Roman Studies was written by Gaston Bo...)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
(The original of this book is in the Cornell University Li...)
(English translation of Gaston Boissier sUA frique Romaine...)
(Efi III. PAOU The Catacombs 139-213 LT he importance wlii...)
( ... Parmi ces légendes, il en est une qui a pour nous u...)
( ...Il y a deux positions très nettes quon peut prendre...)
He was elected a member of the French Academy, of which he was appointed perpetual secretary in 1895.
