This book discusses the debt we, in the modern world, owe to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Various terms, notions, images, and so on, originated in the ancient world. Contents: Introduction (Roger Droit); Could the Romans Answer the Questions We Put to the Greeks? (Jacques Brunschwig); Consensus and Values: What is a Eulogy? (Barbara Cassin); Greek Political Imagery and the Modern One (Cornelius Castoriadis); Suspended Belief (Michel Deguy); Political Gods (Marcel Detienne); The Concept of Liberty in Antiquity and Modern Times (Francois Hartog); When a Roman Citizen from Africa Wrote: Our Hebrew Ancestors (Christiane Ingremeau); Rome in the Late Empire and the Modern Trend