Florence Dupont

Florence Dupont is a French Latiniste , author of many works on the ancient theater and the littératre.

Biography

Former student of the National university, aggregate of traditional letters, Florence Dupont supports in 1976 a thesis of third cycle noticed on the banquet in the ancient literature.

In 1982, it supports its thesis of State on the myths and mythology in the tragedies of Sénèque.

Its book Homère and Dallas created sensation at the time of its publication. It brings closer work there to Homère of the television serial Dallas the success of the Roman theater of that of the current popular culture. Alain Finkielkraut showed it to put at the same level the erudite culture and the popular culture. It continues its provocative study with the Invention of the literature , which points out the weak role of the reading in the Antiquité.

Works

  • Pleasure and the Law: banquet of Plato at Satiricon , François Maspéro, 1977; The Discovery, 2002.
  • Good-byes with Marguerite Yourcenar , editions of the women, 1978.
  • the actor-king. The theater in ancient Rome, the Beautiful Letters , 1986,462 p.
  • the business Milon: murder on the way appienne , Denoël, 1987.
  • the Latin Theater , Armand Colin, Paris, 1988
  • Daily life of the Roman citizen under the Republic , Hatchet, 1989.
  • Homère and Dallas: Introduction to an anthropological criticism , Hatchet, 1991; Kimé, 2005,127 p.
  • monsters of Sénèque , Belin, 1995.
  • the Invention of the literature. Greek intoxication with the Latin text , the Discovery, 1998.
  • Médée de Sénèque, or how to leave humanity , Belin, 2000.
  • the Speaker without face: test over the Roman actor and his mask , university Presses of France, Paris, 2000,245 p.
  • with Thierry Eloi, male Erotism in ancient Rome , Belin, 2001.
  • tragic Insignificance , the Walker, 2001. to read a criticism by Forest Georges
  • the Actor-king: the theater in Rome , Beautiful Letters, 2003.
  • with Emmanuelle Valette-Cagnac (to dir.), Ways of speaking Greek in Rome , Belin, 2005.
  • Aristote or the vampire of the Western theater , Sapwood, 2007.

; translations of Latin texts

  • the breviary of the politicians , allotted to Jules Mazarin, translation of Latin, Coffee/Clima, 1984 (exhausted)
  • tragedies of Sénèque, Translation and introduction to the editions of the HMSO, coll the French spectator, 2 vol. 1991 and 1992
  • Plaute, the Pot , Pseudolus , Act-South, 2002.

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