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Visit and study debates in places where the myth of Odysseus is widespread

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
03/03/2019

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
16/03/2019

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

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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

10/04/2019

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)
 02/05/2019

Ulysses Mirror of the Sea
Piero Boitani
Philologist 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....

26/10/2019

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  

14/04/2023

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'

  16/05/2023 

Ulysses' Gaze  on  the  Sea

The  dictionaries of Inspector Kostas Charitos

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

28/8/2023

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)

 
04/09/2023

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
20/12/2023

Bronze Age Ithacian settlements and Homeric identities

Angelo Pellegrino

Archaeologist, former Director of the Ostia Antica Archaeological Area and professor of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Universities of Naples Federico II, Roma TRE and Bologna
04/06/2024

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

Alessandro Vanoli takes a break in the afternoon to retrace his life, telling us how Homer and the Mediterranean rhythmically appear and disappear from his life 

08/10/2024

 

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

26/10/2024

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