Herculaneum, the archaeo-desire is servant between eros and other appetites

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twelve o’clock, September 9, 2021 – 4:11 pm

Antiquist Laura Pepe and Anna Bonaiuto inaugurate the exhibition which will be held until October 16. Here is The idleness of Hercules. Matter and bodies between ancient and modern

from Natasha Festa



The archeo-desire served. Material culture as a constitutive element of Western imagery is the original cut of the review Gli idzi di Ercole. Matter and bodies between ancient and modern. The director of the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum, Francesco Sirano, has entrusted the care of the program to Gennaro Carillo who has innervated it with anthropological, historical, philosophical aspects, declining the theme of desire appetite eros. We start today, Friday 9 September, at 8 pm, at the Maiuri Park, with the antiquist Laura Pepe who will investigate the representations of food using Anna Bonaiuto’s scenic counterpoint. The scholar will return on the 23rd with Valentina Carnelutti to talk about eros between Pompeii and Herculaneum. Mouth to taste, therefore, but also to kiss with Marino Niola and Elisabetta Moro (Saturday 11, at 8 pm), authors of Kissing.

archaeological park
archaeological park

Saturday 18 the word to Sirano himself who will dialogue with the surgeon and medicine historian Gennaro Rispoli on the most material and corporal of the themes, the excrements, of which Herculaneum holds a testimony of formidable value. On the 29th, at 8 pm, the musicologist Giovanni Bietti at Villa Campolieto narrates the barbaric appetite of Don Giovanni by Mozart / Da Ponte. Hunger again, but the real one, with Corrado Bologna giving a lectio (11.30) on Sancho’s sausages and food in Quixote. Ivano Dionigi, specialist of Lucretius, with readings by Massimo Popolizio on October 3 protagonists of the morning Lucretius: nature without veils. On the 7th the philosopher Ilaria Gaspari with Proustian thrusts and on the 9th at the voice of Radio 3 Edoardo Camurri the task of crossing the doors of perception. Finally, a banquet of words with a Critique of Cook Reason dialogue between Camurri, Niola and Alfonso Iaccarino. State-Region Funds, free admission with reservation.


9 September 2021 | 16:11

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