Abstract
La Prière sur l'Acropole, published in La Revue des Deux Mondes in 1876, then inserted in Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse in 1883, is, despite its complexity, one of Renan's most famous and popular texts. Numerous historians of literature and the Greek world, from Jean Pommier to Pierre Vidal-Naquet, have shed light on the genesis and meaning of these famous pages. While the major stages of this academic posterity are well known, the representation of the Prayer has attracted less attention, despite the extent of its monumental, pictorial, typographical, bibliophilic, theatrical, musical and even cinematographic fortune.
