Flora. Les Fleurs dans l’Antiquité. Architecture – paysage its scale and richness remain

its scale and richness remain exceptional

The author offers a personal insight into this period

Il met véritablement en scène les puissances divines qu'un homme grec pouvait percevoir à l'œuvre dans l’univers

although astonishing churches are being built

Flora. Les Fleurs dans l’Antiquité. Architecture – paysage its scale and richness remainBelles Lettres "Bookmarks" Collection No. 22. A flower makes spring: the Ancients saw it as the symbol of nature, its beauty and its inexhaustible vitality, its fragility too. At each step of the nymph Flora, an infinite variety of flowers blooms. Great myths are about the rose, the narcissus or the hyacinth flower. Flowers are everywhere. They breathe love, during an abduction in the open field or a wedding ceremony. One could only go to the banquet