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Synthesis (La Plata)
Print version ISSN 0328-1205
Abstract
CASSIN, Barbara. Dioses, Dios. Synthesis (La Plata) [online]. 2008, vol.15, pp.147-159. ISSN 0328-1205.
"We are not jealous of gods, we do not serve them, we do not fear them, but at the risk of our lives, we attest for their multiple existence, and are stirred to be of their chancy keeping when they are no more remembered of". What could mean such a sentence written by René Char? Is it still possible to think and to experiment, here and now, after centuries of monotheism, something like a plurality of gods? What is it to be a pagan? Rereading Homer, and then Plato, Nietzsche and Lyotard, we could risk the following definition: pagan is someone able to suppose, between performance and cosmos, that the one coming up to him is, may be, some god.
Keywords : Monotheism; Greek Polytheism; Paganism.