Le fauteur et la faute dans la mythologie gréco-romaine au miroir des Métamorphoses d’Ovide : l’humanité et les dieux face à l’hybris, l’error et le furor
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- This dissertation considers the fault and the wrongdoer in the light of an important Latin mythological work, Ovid's Metamorphoses. The aim is to determine how the Augustan poet of the first centuries BC and AD considers his protagonists, their actions and their attitude throughout the narrative. Based on the methodology adopted, nine myths were selected to analyse the fault around hybris, error and furor. These behaviours are said to be the result of the Iron Age, the most infamous period of humanity. The findings led to the conclusion that, regardless of the type of act committed against human or divine entities, humanity remains a repository of the crimes of the Iron Age. In the Metamorphoses, the faults studied are presented as serious and threatening to the stability of the world. These crimes cannot go unpunished, but Ovid frequently seems to empathise with and defend most of his offending characters. As a result, their portraits often appear to us as ambivalent and their punishments as disproportionate.