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Ce livre, tr s complet tout en  tant facile   lire, vous permettra de mieux aborder les grands textes po tiques d'Hom re et d'Ovide. La mythologie ou l'histoire des Dieux, Demi-Dieux et H ros de l'antiquit  pa enne, expliqu e ici par Jean Humbert, laisse apparaitre aussi qu'elle cache sous ses multiples all gories une r elle philosophie de vie. La po sie anima ainsi toute la nature, et peupla le monde d' tres fantastiques; et comme le dit  l gamment Boileau \u003cem\u003eChaque vertu devient une divinit  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinerve est la prudence, et V nus la beaut ...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e cho n'est plus un son qui dans l'air retentisse, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eC'est une nymphe en pleurs qui se plaint de Narcisse.\u003c\/em\u003eQuoique la mythologie soit presque un tissu continuel de fables, elle ne laisse pas d'avoir une incontestable utilit . Elle nous met en  tat d'expliquer, en les admirant, les chefs-d'oeuvre des peintres et des sculpteurs; elle rend facile et int ressante la lecture des po tes; elle  claircit l'histoire des nations pa ennes; elle fait conna tre dans quelles t n bres  taient plong s les  gyptiens, les Grecs, les Romains, et   quel degr  d' garement peut arriver l'homme, abandonn    ses seules et faibles lumi res. Sans doute une grande partie des fables qui la composent sont invraisemblables et absurdes des dieux boiteux, aveugles, mat riels, se battant entre eux ou contre les hommes; des dieux pauvres, exil s du ciel et oblig s d'embrasser sur la terre la profession de ma on ou de berger, doivent para tre ridicules. 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