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MUSEUM OF THE SEA
FROM ODYSSEUS TO HOMER XIII-VIII cen. b.C.
Visit and study debates in places where the myth of Odysseus is widespread 2019-2025
Interviews Maddalena Reni
Ulysses among the Etruscans
Valentino Nizzo
Former Director of the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia RM
Outside the port of Ithaca, as one approaches Etruria, the name of Odysseus turns into Ulysses and that is how we shall call him from now on
The prophecy of Tiresias
Andrea Camilleri
The author of the TV series "Inspector Montalbano" is important to us as the author of "Conversation about Tiresias"
Ironic dialogue between the old Pythia of Apollo Pannychis XI and the prophet Tiresias played by Camilleri
From Ithaca to Pyrgi
Flavio Enei
Director of the Museum of the Sea and Ancient Navigation (Santa Severa)
ThePyrgi's 'middle ground' perspective, Etruscans, Greeks and Phoenicians, a mixture of cultures and peoples during the centuries of their contact
The myth Ithaca Ulysses and the Sea
Marcello Veneziani
Journalist, writer and philosopher, he has frequented the territories of myth for years
In the wave of the sea, in the deam turning of the myth
From the Odyssey to the Aeneid
Gloria Galante
Former Scientific manager of the Archaeological Museum of Lavinium,Pomezia
Greeks and Trojans behind the founding myths of many Italian cities
Odysseus and the Phoenicians on the Sea
Mounir Fantar
Director of the Department of Ancient Monuments and Sites, IN du Patrimonie. Tunis
Ulysses lands on the coast of North Africa. The importance of the African stopping place
Sicily Mycenaeans in the West
Massimo Cultraro
Archaeologist, Professor of Prehistory and Prehistory of the Aegean at the University of Palermo
Archaeological traces of Mycenaean navigation in Southern Italy and especially in Sicily
The Cave of Tiberius
Maddalena Reni
Director of the Museum of the Sea from Odysseus to Homer of Ithaca visiting the Sperlonga Archaeological Museum
The greatest testimony of the myth of Ulysses
The Women's Odyssey
Eva Cantarella
Historian of Antiquity and Ancient Law
The female gender of the Odyssey also includes the Sea (Thalassa) and the island Ithaca (Ithaki)
Ulysses Mirror of the Sea
Piero Boitani
Literary critic and writer. Literary Director of the Lorenzo Valla Foundation
There is nothing that belongs to the sea that cannot be attributed to Ulysses: variability, polychromy, depth, softness, clarity, liquidity....
The Euboians on the Routes of Ulysses
Lorenzo Braccesi
Greek scholar and essayist. Founder of the journal Hesperia. Studies on the Greek world of the West
The expansionist and mythopoetic enterprise of sailors from Euboea travelling to the West
Ulysses on the psychiatrist's couch
Vittorino Andreoli
Psychiatrist and writer, dedicated to the study of neuroscience and communication in psychiatry
Andreoli analyses Ulysses' mind. 'He affectively is a monster. Bad husband, bad father'
Ulysses' Gaze on the Sea
Petros Markaris
The fact is that at a certain point in my research, I realised that in order to investigate Ulysses I needed the flair of a good policeman like Kostas Charitos, the protagonist of the detective novels by Petros Markaris with whom I am going to speak
The Returns
Courses and Recourses of Heroes, Men and Stories
Irad Malkin
Tel Aviv University historian, member of the Athens Academy, Author, among others, of the book The Returns of Odysseus, Colonization and Ethnicity (1998)
The author tells us about Ulysses as the hero of nostos
Ulysses pirate among pirates
Cristoforo Gorno
Author and television presenter. Since 2015 on Rai Hitory he has presentes a series of historical programmes entitled From Myth to History
In the Odyssey`s filigree we read the history of the Sea Peoples
Bronze Age Ithacian settlements and Homeric identities
Angelo Pellegrino
Archaeologist, former Director of the Ostia Antica Archaeological Area
Author of the book Sulle Rotte di Ulisse. Da Troia a Itaca tra mito e realtà
The Mediterranean a Sea a Utopia, a Great History
In connection from Bologna
Alessandro Vanoli
Historian and writer of Quando guidavano le stelle and Storia del mare, among others
The author takes a break in the afternoon to retrace his life, telling us how Homer, Ulysses and the Mediterranean Sea rhythmically appear and disappear from his life
Ulysses' Ship
Sailing with a square sail
Stefano Medas
Naval archaeologist and sailor with traditional Adriatic boats (sail on the third)
"I say there is nothing worse than the sea
to tan a man badly, even if he is very strong" Od., VIII, 138
Living flashing in a Storm
The adventures of a Contemporary Ulysses
Giovanni Soldini
A name that recalls ocean crossings, sporting performance records (2 round-the-world solo and at least 5 in crew) technological advancement and at the same time love and respect for nature and the sea
Ulysses Poetic Refractions
Elio Pecora
Contemporary poet and writer
The Odyssean heritage of the Greek poets
Hugo Pratt The Odyssey drawn in comics
In the story of Marco Steiner
Hugo Pratt
Cartoonist and writer who died in 1995
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