Lavinia, women are the future of Rome

Lecture by Isabelle Cogitore, professor of Latin language and literature at UFR LLASIC
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In Virgil's immense epic poem, the Aeneid, Lavinia is a woman figure barely sketched by the Latin poet. But Ursula K. Le Guin's novel Lavinia, and the creation of the same name by Isis Fahmy and Benoît Renaudin, give her a depth, a voice and a reality that may surprise us.
It's an opportunity for us to see how literary and artistic creation slips into the interstices of an ancient work and feeds off it, giving it new life and opening up new avenues of reflection on the place of antiquity in our world, both virtual and real, and on themes that are very much of our time.

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Isabelle Cogitore is professor of Latin language and literature at the LLASIC UFR and director of the Litt&Arts laboratory. In the course of her training, she combined the study of Latin and ancient Greek with history, archaeology and other sources (inscriptions, coins), specializing in the study of Latin historians and their ideas. The central question that occupies him is that of the value of ancient sources, whether it's a question of seeing how a political theme crosses epochs or how ancient authors transmit knowledge that irrigates posterity.

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In addition to various scientific articles, she has published a monograph The sweet name of freedom: History of a political idea in ancient Rome (Ausonius, 2011); she co-edited the collective work, Influential women in the Hellenistic world and Rome. Cogitore, I., Bielman, A., Kolb, A., dir, (UGA edition, Collection Des Princes, 2016; reissued March 2021).
She has contributed to a new French translation of Caesar's complete works, Warswith introductions, notes and maps, with M. Coudry, J.P. De Giorgio, S. Lefebvre, S. Wyler (Les Belles Lettres, editio minor, 2020).
Updated December 11, 2023