Philippe Aries Quotes:
Life: July 21, 1914 - February 8, 1984
Birthday: July 21
Death: February 8
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.
source: Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage
topic: Strength, Music, Hero, Joie De Vivre, Modern Times, Wagner
