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19 septembre 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.38841
- isbn: 9782753509818
- eisbn: 9782753546974
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Claudia Zatta, « Chapitre V. The last metamorphosis of Proteus in Euripides’Helen », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.38841
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« What mortal can search out and tell what is god, what is not, and what lies between ? » With this question the chorus of Euripides’Helen (412BC) voices a fundamental distrust of the human capacity to understand divinity. Not only pertaining to the recognition of gods, this incapacity also extends to other categories of beings, humans and any semi-divine creature. To mortal eyes identities, whether human or divine, are ungraspable. Yet, not everything is lost. Unable to recognize divinity, m...