Abstract
Most works dealing with intelligence, whatever their author's profile, make a detour via the Greeks, albeit a brief one. The place of Greek philosophers - those " professionals of intelligence " - in European cultural baggage goes some way to explaining this obligatory passage. It's also one of the persistent effects of the so-called " Greek miracle " which, even when beaten back by historians, continues to inform a certain representation of ancient Greece, and even its recovery. Within the limits of this presentation, we will draw on narrative traditions, particularly poetic ones, to illustrate the complexity of the forms of what we call " intelligence " in a culture that is supposed to have set the primordial scene.
