The Archaeological Museum of Naples hosts Fuoriclassico 2017, a review of the classics with intellectuals and artists: among the guests also Luigi Lo Cascio and Massimo Cacciari.
From November 2017 to June 2018 il National archeologic museum of Naples becomes the scene of an important review. It is about 2017 Fuoriclassico, Program of 15 meetings on the classics with 30 guests. In fact, the various appointments will participate actors, writers, artists visual and philosophers and there will be also other locations.
Among the names present those of Luigi Lo Cascio, Massimo Cacciari, Anna Bonaiuto and Hisham Matar, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. In the second edition of Fuoriclassico the contemporaneity of the classics is investigated and we discuss about migrations and metamorphosis. The theme is ideally connected with the works of Ovid and Giambattista Vico.
The goal is to free the ancient and modern classics to restore their restless and polymorphic nature. This year the review is made up not only of theatrical encounters, but also of visual elements, thanks to visual artists like Antonio Biasucci and Alejandro Gomez de Tuddo.
Off-course program
November 10, 2017
18 pm - Archaeological Museum
The inaugural meeting with speeches by Giuseppe Laterza, Pietro del Soldà and Marco Filoni. Reflections on the changes in space and public discourse.
November 24, 2017
17.30 pm - Archaeological Museum
Dialogue on Dionysus between Massimo Fusillo Gennaro Carillo
November 25, 2017
21 pm - Toledo Gallery
MDLSX Performance of the Motusa theme Dionysus, with Silvia Calderoni
13 December 2017
17,30 pm - Archaeological Museum
Professors Franco Ferrari and Massimo Capaccioli and historian Eugenio Lo Sardo discuss myths and scientific theories about the origin of the world.
16 December 2017
18 pm - Bellini Theater
Luigi Lo Cascio reads Plato's Apology of Socrates.
31 January 2018
17,30 pm - Archaeological Museum
Professor Ivano Dionigi and writer Paolo Di Paolo discuss the Metamorphosis of the Intellectual with Sandro Lombardi.
16 February 2018
18 pm - Archaeological Museum
With the participation of professor Cristina Cattaneo and writer Caterina Soffici. Starting from the act of burial in the classical world, we will also talk about migration.
23 February 2018
17,30 pm - Archaeological Museum
Nadia Fusini and Gennaro Carillo talk about Falstaff and Atteone on the occasion of the new translation of the Merry Comets of Shakespeare.
22 March 2018
18 pm - Archaeological Museum
Luciano Canforale reflects on the metamorphosis of the comedian and his relationship with the politician starting from the Athens of the Peloponnesian war.
26 March 2018
18 pm - Archaeological Museum
The theme of exile and return is discussed in the comparison between ancient and modern. Nostos / reditus. With the participation of Professor Rossana Valenti and the author Hisham Matar, 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner.
20 April 2018
18 pm - Archaeological Museum
Massimo Cacciari presents his original interpretation of the Aeneid in a reading entitled Vittoria triste. Anna Bonaiuto will instead read excerpts from the poem by Virgil.
7 May 2018
17,30 pm - Archaeological Museum
Gennaro Carillo and Ulderico Pomarici will reflect on the 'immoralistic' theories of justice in a comparison between ancient and modern. Massimo Popolizio will read extracts from classical authors such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Antiphon, Plato.
16 May 2018
17,30 pm - Archaeological Museum
The theme of the meeting is the attraction to the ruins, with visual counterpoint on Rome by Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo. Speakers Professor Alain Schnapp and the journalist-writer Vittorio Giacopini.
7 June 2018
18 pm - Archaeological Museum
Professor Alessandro Barchiesi will talk about Metamorphosis at the theater. Elena Bucci will read the myths of Ovid on the Tirreni pirates and on Atteone.
13 June 2018
17,30
In the last appointment, Professor Chapoutot and the film critic Alberto Crespi intervene. The theme will be the abuse of classical antiquity by the Nazi regime.
