Luce sull'Archeologia - Roma e Atene. Memoria, conoscenza, immaginario - Incontro 4

Rome and Athens. Memory, knowledge, imagination. Speakers Luciano Canfora, Ancient World Historian and Professor of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Bari Annalisa Lo Monaco, Researcher in Classical Archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome Elena Korka, Athenian archaeologist and Director General of Antiquities at the Ministry of Greek Culture Rome and Athens, two capitals compared. An analysis of cultural contamination, the special status of the city of Athens, the terrible experience of the Mithridatic War and the reconquest of Athens by Sulla. In the 2nd century BC, the encounter with Greece and Asia Minor forever changed the face of the city of Rome, which had by then become the true undisputed power of the Mediterranean. But what did "Rome" mean in those years to a Greek? How did the Greeks imagine the city of Rome before experiencing it firsthand?