Alexandre le Grand

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly treats Alexander as the marker of a historical shift: following his father Philip, he moves Greece from the city to the Empire, a form that Rome later takes over12. He sees in it the end of collective destinies, since the conqueror "brought everyone into line"3. He links to this moment the crisis of the Greek city, out of which Socrates emerges, as well as Aristotle's zôon politikon, contemporary with an empire that collapses with the Diadochi4. He often returns to the master–pupil relationship with Aristotle, who asked Alexander to bring back unknown plants and animals from his campaigns5. He also makes Alexander the figure of decision, as opposed to hesitation: the man of action who cuts the Gordian knot6. He further mentions his encounter with Diogenes, a subject common among painters, the link Plutarch draws between Stoicism and the new world order, the spread of the acanthus motif and his passage through Bactria.

1. 1Platon14 Sept 2015 · 3:04
2. 2#3.4 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 50:28
3. 3#3.4 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:11:54
4. 4Ce soir, on repolitise. 1ère partie12 Mar 2018 · 46:19
5. 59 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 47:58
6. 6Dialectiques de l'hésitation et de la décision13 Nov 2022 · 8:56

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