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When I went to Troy in Turkey, I was plagued with a lively excitement, remembering passages of the Iliad. If the book of Homer is a must for classical culture, many are reluctant to read, holding the classics like the works that should have read to shine in society but few people actually want to read, believing them ( wrongly) dusty, boring, out of our time and our concerns. Of course, the Iliad and the Odyssey belong to a bygone era, of course it comes to war and adventure, of course, the gods play a role, of course we are in a mythical universe. But ultimately this is all the decor. We feel very quickly that everything here is timeless. Everything that is written there concerning us directly: the wrath of Achilles or despair, have we not felt this way? The heart in exile of Odysseus (Ulysses), have we not been subject to the same melancholy? And then ... let your child's heart wander a bit in the dream, the magic of the past, if an exotic elsewhere.