INTERVIEW – The academician, philosopher and philologist, designed her graphic novel The Odyssey from antique ceramics from the Campana gallery. Meeting on site.
« Look ! This frieze shows the deities and warriors of The Iliad. And the one who stands a little aside, already turned to leave, is Ulysses. » This visitor to the Louvre with her keen eye is a bit special. It is a well of science whose passion is communicative. On the first floor of the Sully wing, in front of the 300 Greek vases of the Campana gallery recently redeveloped and reopened to the public, Barbara Cassin, great Hellenist, member of the French Academy since 2018, CNRS gold medalist for her work, likes to tell stories The Odyssey as a philosopher.
For educational reasons that honor her, she started writing graphic novels. She has thus selected from these ceramic decorations those which seem to her the most useful for understanding the king of Ithaca and the universal scope of his adventures. This results today in an original and penetrating book, peppered with luminous philological and symbolic explanations (1). All full of ancient scenes…
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