I is the other ? On the trail of the double in ancient culture

From its very beginnings, Western culture has expressed a kind of fascination with a mythical nucleus, the story of which it reproduces, sometimes even just the outline, the fear or the dream : the story of a man who finds himself face to face with another himself, or of one who encounters a copy of the person he believes he is meeting. This embryo has had the capacity to develop in the most disparate forms : from pure narrative fiction to philosophical reflection, from poetry to religion..