Was there literature in Rome ? In other words, did what we today call literature, with all the qualities and functions usually attached to it, already exist in Roman antiquity ? Florence Dupont has relentlessly pursued this question throughout her work as a Latinist and Hellenist, one of the most original and influential of the last fifty years. She recently returned to the subject in her monumental Histoire littéraire de Rome : de Romulus à Ovide, une culture de la traduction (2022). This anthropological and social approach to so-called literary objects is obviously of interest to comparativists, which is why it seemed important to bring together professors from the Collège de France and specialists from various disciplines (literature, law, history) and from different periods and cultural areas, to reflect together on the question of the literary in Rome.
Symposium
