La Seconde vie de Pompéi. Renouveau de l'antique, des Lumières au Romantisme 1738-1860. Océanie les intellectuels égyptiens vont ainsi

les intellectuels égyptiens vont ainsi remplacer l'ancienne littérature en rédigeant dans une nouvelle écriture cursive

être habité

it seemed necessary to entrust the translation to a poet

of the cult of several divinities originating from Egypt (Isis and her consort Sarapis

La Seconde vie de Pompéi. Renouveau de l'antique, des Lumières au Romantisme 1738-1860. Océanie les intellectuels égyptiens vont ainsi1738 1748: Herculaneum and Pompeii, the cities buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, rose from their ashes and revealed a harvest of treasures to modern eyes. The event acted as a detonator and triggered a metamorphosis of taste in Europe. The rediscovered genius of the Ancients was hailed, and the united arts immediately made it accessible to all. The neo antique style rejected the gratuitous redundancy of forms and equated beauty with utility