Fourth appointment of the “Cultural Gym” review at the Pompeii excavations on September 23 at 19,00:XNUMX pm in the suggestive location of the Palestra Grande.
The initiative is part of the Campania by Night program, a review of cultural and entertainment events promoted by the Campania Region through Scabec, a regional company for the enhancement of cultural heritage. A true cultural gym where you can train your mind and spirit through the beauty and history of Pompeii, but also through special meetings with writers and artists.
This new meeting, "The Ghost of Antiquity: Dialogues on the Classical Tradition," curated by Gennaro Carillo, features Silvia Romani, professor of mythology, classical religions, and classical anthropology, with a presentation on "Sappho, the Girl from Lesbos."
Following the meeting, it will be possible to take a guided tour of the exhibition "Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii," set up inside one of the porticoes of the Palestra Grande. Curated by Director Gabriel Zuchtriegel and archaeologist Maria Luisa Catoni, a professor at IMT Alti Studi Lucca, the exhibition explores the omnipresence of sensual images in everyday life in the ancient city.
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"If in every hero or heroine there is an Achilles, in the love poetry of every age there is Sappho, endlessly rewritten. Silvia Romani leads us into the mystery of the girl from Lesbos who lived in an era—and on an island—when the memory of the Homeric heroes was still fresh, to the point of making them figures not so much of myth as of history," Gennaro Carillo emphasizes. "But speaking of Sappho also means grappling with the debt our imagination owes to her, in a dizzying back and forth from Catullus to Leopardi, from Shakespeare to Anna Maria Ortese, from Rilke to María Zambrano, passing—among other stops on the journey—through Rodin, Salinger, and Picnic at Hanging Rock."
Silvia Romani, Silvia Romani teaches Mythology, Religions of the Classical World and Anthropology of the Classical World at the University of Milan. Sappho, the Girl from Lesbos (Einaudi) is her latest book.
Gennaro Carillo, curator of the project for this section of the review, is a full professor of History of Political Thought in the Department of Humanities at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, where he also teaches History of Philosophy and Theoretical Philosophy. At the Department of Architecture at Federico II, he teaches Philosophies of the Polis. He has written on Vico, Greek tragedians and comedians, ancient historiography, Antiphon, Plato, Balzac, Simone Weil, and has long been involved in modern and contemporary rewritings of the myth of Diana and Actaeon. Co-artistic director of Salerno Letteratura, he is the curator of Gli Ozi di Ercole at the Parco Archeologico di Ercolano and of Fuoriclassico. The ambiguous contemporaneity of the ancient at the MANN in Naples.
Admission to the event and the exhibition "Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii" is free, subject to availability. Reservations are recommended at www.ticketone.it (€1,50 booking fee, when purchasing a free ticket).
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