Antonio Pascale - La prima lezione sull'Odissea

The Odyssey is not only one of the greatest texts of universal literature, but a world in book form: a work "capable of reformulating itself according to the changing times and cultures." This is why its resonance has endured for over 2,600 years. Its twenty-four cantos resonate with all the notes of our lives: they recount the nostalgia of a man torn from his homeland and family for twenty years, they recount the adventures of a grandiose yet profoundly human existence, they evoke grief, love, sacrifice, challenges, and the complexity of human relationships. In these pages, Penelope returns to await the return of her husband, who disappeared in the war, and Telemachus that of the father he has never known. The waves of the Aegean continue to lap the island of the Phaeacians while Nausicaa plays with her maids. The Cyclops remains once again stunned and blind as he curses his fleeing prisoner... But everything unfolds as if for the first time, under the admiring and questioning gaze of Antonio Pascale, who in this first lesson wants to tell us about this entire world, showing us its beauties and secrets, to be listened to in one breath and remembered forever.