Penser les Dieux avec les présocratiques. Arts Graphiques March 1961

March 1961

and for the same period the presentation of a vase with painted decoration representing a bearded figure with a halo seen from the front discovered in the monastery of Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan (cf

réalisées lors de ses récents voyages à Bénarès

is part of a "reverie of matter

Penser les Dieux avec les présocratiques. Arts Graphiques March 1961At the dawn of the 5th century, the Greeks distanced themselves from traditional beliefs and we see the development of the first rational explanations of the world. Do they imply a form of atheism? Or do they lead to new religious conceptions, as historians of philosophy have believed until recently? In the fragmentary writings of the pre Socratic sages, the gods are presented differently, earlier religious representations are called into question,