Dans ce trait , Plutarque examine, travers des perspectives anthropologiques et culturelles, des aspects fascinants de la vie et des institutions de la Rome antique. Le texte grec, tabli partir de tous les manuscrits conserv s, s'accompagne d'un appareil critique qui corrige de nombreuses erreurs des ditions ant rieures, ainsi que d'un autre apparat, tr s utile et complet, de loci paralleli. En outre, le caract re nigmatique de ces 113 questions sans contexte est expliqu comme repr sentant une promenade travers le centre de Rome, pendant laquelle les monuments rencontr s d clenchent des questions. In this treatise, Plutarch examines fascinating aspects of the life and institutions of ancient Rome through anthropological and cultural perspectives. The Greek text, established on the basis of all the surviving manuscripts, is accompanied by a critical apparatus that corrects numerous errors from earlier editions, as well as by a very useful and comprehensive apparatus of loci paralleli. Furthermore, the enigmatic nature of these 113 questions without context is explained as representing a walk through the center of Rome, during which the monuments encountered give rise to questions.