L'art de résister, Comment l'"Énéide" nous apprend à traverser une crise. Gaule some animals play a more

some animals play a more important role than others and form a sort of "central bestiary

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L'art de résister, Comment l'"Énéide" nous apprend à traverser une crise. Gaule some animals play a moreThe Aeneid is not a poem for peacetime. Its verses are not appropriate when everything is going smoothly. Its song is intended for the moment when the urgency is felt to find our way back to an after that astounds us by its difference from the before in which we have always lived. To put it in meteorological language: reading the Aeneid is warmly recommended in the midst of a hurricane, and if possible without an umbrella. For Aeneas no longer has a