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Transgressant les lois de la biographie historique en plaçant dans la bouche même d'un empereur romain le récit qu'il fait de sa vie, Marguerite Yourcenar inaugure, avec Mémoires d'Hadrien, un genre littéraire original : celui de l'autobiographie fictive. De ce fait, dans ce beau roman inscrit au programme des agrégations de lettres classiques et modernes, la question de " l'écriture de soi " s'avère singulièrement diffractée. A la différence de l'autobiographie traditionnelle - qui postule une identité entre auteur, narrateur et personnage - le " soi " peut renvoyer ici à l'empereur qui se raconte tout comme à l'écrivain qui interroge, à travers son personnage, sa propre identité. L'auteur de cet ouvrage propose donc une étude de cette " mise en scène " subtile de l'écriture de soi dans une œuvre qui se situe délibérément à la frontière du réel et de la fiction et dont la modernité consiste précisément à faire voler en éclats les distinctions convenues entre roman, biographie et autobiographie.

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The Roman empress Faustina the Elder (c. 97-140) and her daughter Faustina II (c. 130-175) have been subject to criticism from the earliest records, described in turn as fickle, unfaithful, and treasonous. Yet their husbands, the emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, have reputations as golden as that of the whole Antonine age and seem to have thought favorably of them as prolific mothers, loyal spouses, and useful complements to the military and political proceedings of the empire. On the most basic level of lineage and procreation, the two women were naturally important for establishing the Antonine dynasty. Yet, the Faustinae, as they are commonly referred, also proved instrumental in solidifying in Roman minds the image of a nurturing and harmonious empire. Barbara M. Levick's Faustina I and II carefully synthesizes the many competing sources on the Faustinae into one comprehensive study, demonstrating the extent to which women could and did influence both the internal workings and external standing of the imperial dynasty. The book traces Faustina I's formation of her family's heritage amid a new empire through to Faustina II's enhancement of that legacy, focusing especially on the younger Faustina's deep involvement in palace politics and her possible role in the revolt of Avidius Cassius in 175. Through an analysis of everything from textual evidence to portraiture and coin inscriptions, this study ultimately evokes these two women whose exact biographies are not always certain, but whose relevance to their contemporaries and current scholarship is perfectly distinct.

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