Abstract: If La Boétie and Hobbes seem to propose two very different modes of political thought, Raffaela Santi shows that it is possible to see in their work a shared interest in the question of the voluntary submission of humans to power, not to mention the fact that both writers translated Homer, a practice they put to political ends. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that while voluntary submission is the worst of all evils for one, it is an indispensible remedy for the other.
