Passeurs De Culture

Anne-marie Favreau-linder, Sophie Lalanne, Jean-Luc Vix

The present collection of essays investigates a geographical and chronological territory extending from Italy to the Eastern Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th century A.D. It examines the circulation of Greek culture between Greece and Rome through Egypt, Asia Minor and Pontus Euxinus, a culture whose epicentre is paideia.00If the word "culture" comes from the Latin word cultura, the concept itself, which means general knowledge acquired through schools, books and cultural institutions, is related, in the Roman world of the first centuries A.D., to Greek paideia. As for paideia, which was then restricted to social elites, it covered "literary" education formulated and conveyed by sophists and grammarians in the time of the Roman Empire, as well as other forms of Greek culture like music, philosophy and sports.00This book focuses on cultural mediators, first of all professors who...