Rome, Eternal Fiction? Why the Ancient Fascinates Again!

A few weeks ago, in Nîmes, hundreds of spectators attended the re-enactment of one of the most violent stories of antiquity: Romulus killing his brother Remus. In the arena, this myth of nearly 2,800 years old revived with great reinforcement of helmets, capes and speeches in Latin. And the Empire reborn, the time of a weekend. This type of spectacle is not annoyed. It says something of our time: our need for legible history, strong foundations,…