“…Zeus, and the deities of Olympus, Prometheus, Heracles, Oedipus, Theseus, Helen, Pandora, Ulysses are some of them, the most striking. Mythical narratives, whether they are known through texts or through images, participate in the construction of as varied domains of Greek experience as the polytheistic pantheon, food codes, relations between the sexes, the view of the phases of life and death or history communities…”

“…"Nel mezzo del cammin" of their lives, each find occasions, incidents and unpredictable relations: a child struggling with a sand Castle is the best ally of the great kings of the ancient epic, a man tried by the tragedy of the earthquake can speak like Ulysses, the worker and a housewife should not wonder cross Hemingway and t. s. …”