Ritual e símbolo: a máscara na Grécia Antiga

Because, in the recent pandemic context of Covid 19, masks have taken on an incomparable protagonism, we have considered it opportune to rehabilitate the expressive echo of this enigmatic human reality, proposing a retrospective look at the history of words, of the concepts associated to them, and of the objects they refer to. Recognizing Greece as the undisputed precursor in all cultural mediations of European thought, we seek to present from that point of reference the peculiar history of masks, as a phenomenon of cultural creation and religious expression: by the explicitness of the most ancient agraphic archaeological findings, and by revisiting the exceptional symbolic testimony of Greek Literature, in particular Homeric Poetry, we canindeed surprise in germ, in its double dynamism of recognition of identity and otherness, the most ancient representations of the human condition, and of the peculiar relationship of man with the gods, with the cosmos and with himself.