Langage des dieux, langage des démons, langage des hommes dans l'Anquité
Abstract
By “barbarian names”, we denote names or words used, principally within a ritual context in ancient religions, the efficacy of which depends upon a semantic opacity, a strangeness or even an unintelligibility. In order to determine the distance that constitutes the ‘barbarous’ character of these names, this book offers a series of studies on various examples – a majority concerning Middle- or Neo-Platonic texts – which will allow the reader to appreciate the theories through which Antiquity viewed the relationships, particularly the interchange, between the various beings that inhabit the world – mortals, demons, and gods – each group having its own language, mode of expression, its manner of being situated within the hierarchical order of reality, and being related to others.
