Voix / Voies de Calliope

The Greco-Latin epic, with its mythical battles and helmeted heroes, its fabulous monsters and irascible gods, its tutelary muse, Calliope, and its solemn verses, seems to come from another time, frozen in a world that is no longer ours. Yet it is alive: inexhaustible, timeless is Calliope's voice.
Within the theater, past and present, at the bend of a saint's life or a Sapphic poem, at the heart of low fantasy or pop culture, the epic breath, universal exaltation of the human impulse towards the highest, the beyond and the unknown, emerges in every place, in every era, as demonstrated in the present volume.
Fruit of diverse approaches and varied horizons, the Voix / Voies de Calliope collective project explores the regions where the epic is reinvented and rewritten, and maps the signs of its presence in places far removed from its traditional home, in search of what truly defines it.