Lucien is Jerphagnon Historian of Religions and great connoisseur of Greek and Roman worlds (no, it's not the same thing). Foolishness ... If only it could be a source of renewable energy. Because the deposit is abundant, even beyond our wildest dreams, handy, so universal, so common to all societies and civilizations, so clean ourselves. And it remains the blackhead, pustule that we see such a huge melanoma in the neighbor. It starts with "it was better before." Before what? The atom or the Higgs boson? And what a delight to read Sophocles and many others to ourselves, deplore the extent of the dirty foolishness, its permanence, its malfeasance. With elegance and always putting the authors before, read this precious book of Lucien Jerphagnon. In any season, and from generation to generation ...