Myths as both stories and images, as stories to hear and see, but at the same time as models of culture, revealing customs and beliefs that we believed we have forgotten; or themes and problems of today that bounce off us from an antiquity that seemed remote. The Mythologica of the Greeks and Romans come back to life in the words of scholars – classicists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, film scholars, stage directors – who explain their history and meaning; but also in the work of writers capable of bring out all the narrative power they retain even for us as contemporaries.

Ten lectures and twenty authors, expected and unexpected, among them: Nadia Fusini and Silvia Romani recount the myth of Ariadne, Theseus and Dionysus; Massimo Fusillo the myth of Helen, Aphrodite and Menelaus; Luigi Spina and David Riondino the myth of the Sirens, singing and illusion; Guido Guidorizzi and Roberto Vecchioni the myth of Ulysses, the sea and Ithaca; Giorgio Ieranò and Aglaia McClintock the myth of Agamemnon, Orestes and Clytemnestra; Mario Lentano and Marcello Flores the myth of Aeneas.