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Considerations on three newly discovered paintings of episodes of the Greek myth from Pompeii

A newly excavated large dining room (oecus) at Pompeii (room no. 24 in the ‘insula’ or block of houses 10, in the 9th ‘regio’ or quarter of the city), dated in the last decade of the 1st c. BC, has internal walls endowed with paintings on a black background. Three pictures represent episodes of the Greek myth. On the north wall of the hall there is the depiction of Helen and Paris, whose…

The roots of the classicism | Antonio CORSO

This is my second short article on a theme of history of ideas. I have first of all to give a definition of what I mean with the word ‘classicism’. In my opinion, classicism is an interpretation of the classical past as fairy tale. Components of the classicistic dream are a land inhabited by deities, populated by heroes forever young and beautiful, in gardens or meadows or groves, because the…

The disappearance of the polis | Antonio Corso

With this short article, I begin a series of meditations on the history of ideas concerning ancient Greece. When we think to ancient Greece our thought goes spontaneously to the institution of the polis, with its poets, writers, artists and philosophers. That is due to the fact that from around 1760 until now, nearly every study of classical Greece lavished emphasis on the self governing…

This book aims at giving a new presentation of Roman art, illustrating the various currents which are the background of visual cultures in the period from 2nd century BC until AD 5th century. The strong impact of Greek art of the classical period received the due emphasis, as well as the nostalgia for the good old times of the glory that was Greece. At the same time, the flourishing of an art…

Un pilone italo-australiano per Promotica Centurioni

Antonio Corso, massiccio italo-australiano classe 2001, rinforzerà il reparto degli avanti di Promotica Centurioni, nel campionato di serie A al via il 2 ottobre.Nato il 15 giugno 2001 a Melbourne, 180 cm di altezza, 110 kg di peso, Antonio Corso gioca da pilone sinistro ed ha maturato già esperienza nel campionato di serie A avendo militato nel Napoli la scorsa stagione. In questi giorni sta…

Antonio Corso: Considerations concerning two recent downdatings of important ancient Greek statues

An article appeared in the periodical Ανθέμιον , volume 30 (2020), pages 37-45 in which the famous head of Alexander the Great in the Museum of Akropolis (fig. 1), which is usually dated in the 330s BC and attributed to Leochares, is re-dated in the advanced 2nd c. BC. I am writing this article in order to inform both scholars and the public that this down-dating is not convincing at all. First…

CORSO: “Thrones as attributes of kingly status were already well known in classical Greece”

The Acts of the 8th conference about Ancient Macedonia have been published. Unfortunately a scholar published in these Acts a paper in which she asserts that the throne as attribute of royalty was established in Macedonia only with the conquer of Persia by Alexander the Great. The obvious aim of this assertion is to downdate the royal tomb II of Vergina, which is attributed on solid ground to…