Ifigeneia Botouropoulou was born in Athens and was Professor of History of French Culture at the University of Athens. Her PhD thesis, which she supported at Sorbonne, is entitled “Ernest Renan and Modern Greece” (Athens, Publisher Hadjinikoli, 1993, 394 pp.). She has published many studies and articles and has an extensive translation body of work. Among them: Rosmapamon, maison de Ernest Renan. Du passé au présent (Athènes, Éditions D. Korontzis, 2012, 263 pp.).
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Çanakkale, a city near Troy in the Dardanelles region, became known as early as the 18th century for its ceramics, which were exported throughout the East. Cultural archaeology is the subject of this comparative study that embraces many disciplines to help us understand the reasons that have shaped this heritage’s appropriation, reception, and triumphant recognition.
Renan, as an historian of religion with a rationalistic background, but above all as a philologist with an exceptional knowledge of and connection with the French language, left us an excellent translation of the Song of Songs. This text never ceased to intrigue and attract with its mystery people of science, letters, and art
French traveler Castellan in an epistle of 1820 writes down the charming story of Melica, which was told to the French travelers by a wandering Greek rhapsodist: piracy, love, war, envy, betrayal, triumph of true love, but also a realistic depiction of pre-revolutionary Greece.
In a seaside village in Brittany, that the wind flays and kneels by the mourning, a passionate love is born between Gaud, the beautiful daughter of a rich fisherman, and the beautiful and arrogant Yann , the “fisherman of Iceland”.
n a small village in Japan in the twelfth century, Katsuro, a famous fisherman, supplier of the sacred lakes of the imperial city with carp, the wonderful fish with the “incomparable longevity” who’s skin “reflects the sun like a polished brass”. His unexpected drowning forces his widow, the young and beautiful Miyuki to take over the delivery of carp to the palace. So she starts her long and painful journey between all sorts of dangers and pitfalls…
The novel The Ladies’ Paradise, written in 1883, in the colloquium of Zola’s literary success, deals with the competition, the conquest and the triumph of the trade of the “novelties”, which the Paris department stores inaugurated at the expense, of course, of the smaller stores; the book talks about the omnipotence of money and love, about the unprecedented progress that demolished and killed a part of French society.
The story begins with the main hero, Ferdinand, who now lives alone in his big farm after the death of his wife and the relocation of his son’s family. And he does not like it at all. One by one persons will start appearing that for one reason or the other want to settle on the farm, which will eventually become full of vitality and will begin to function again thanks to humanity and goodness.
When the author talks about the Growing Up, she talks about herself. The miracle of the book: Because her mother became her child, the writer grows up. She was given this chance and she wonders, “From where does all this love is coming from?”
The text of the Prayer up on the Acropolis, dedicated to the Goddess Athena, is the most famous hymn to the values of classical Athens written by the great French philosopher and thinker Ernest Renan.
