Le sage et l'insensé. La composition et la transmission des sagesses démotiques. Islam It reproduces the adult world

It reproduces the adult world through miniaturization and follows its evolutions

as the intermediary between god and mortals

These are our fundamental sources for reconstructing this prehistoric scene

thanks to the spiritual life represented by philosophy

BATAILLE (André)

Le sage et l'insensé. La composition et la transmission des sagesses démotiques. Islam It reproduces the adult worldLibrary of the School of Advanced Studies, volume 347. "Demotic wisdoms are collections of proverbs attested only in Greek and Roman Egypt. We have resumed the analysis of this file from the angle of the composition of the proverbs. This leads to isolating different stanzas and highlighting different mnemonic processes. Indeed, as Henri Irne Marrou had shown for the classical Greek world, recitation must have played a major role in the temple schools