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Icarus and Daedalus in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"
2012
In Song of Solomon Toni Morrison rewrites the legend of the Flying Africans and the Myth of Icarus to create her own Myth. Her depiction of the black hero’s search for identity has strong mythical overtones. Morrison rescues those elements of mythology black culture which are still relevant to blacks and fuses them with evident allusions to Greek mythology. She reinterprets old images and myths of flight, the main mythical motif in the story. Her Icarus engages on an archetypical journey to the South, to his family past, led by his Daedalic guide, on which he finally recovers his ancestral ability to fly. His flight signals a spiritual epiphany in the hero’s quest for self-definition in the…
La géographie de la Sicile dans la Bibliothéque Historique de Diodore de Sicile
2023
Diodorus’ information on Sicilian geography are few, and they occur in Books 4-5, devoted to local myths. The historian deals especially with subjects such as insularity, site, dimensions of the Island, with the aim to stress the central role played by Sicily within the ancient Mediterranean world, also from a geographical point of view. In Diodorus’ Sicilian “Archaeology” the coeval data about geography mingle with mythical information, often approximative and unreal, which the historian found in previous literary traditions. Yet mythical heroes left traces of their presence on the Island, and these are considered by Diodorus as still visible in his times, and a proof of their passage. Cen…
OMAGGIO A DEDALO. Case sognate sul fiume Platani
2019
Il fiume Platani racconta dell’arrivo e della presenza di Dedalo in Sicilia. E poiché il mito non ha tempo si immagina che diversi architetti vadano a trovare Dedalo sulle rive del fiume - dove abita ancora - per chiedergli consigli su certi loro progetti, come una volta gli uomini andavano a Delfi, a Cuma o a Lylibeo per interrogare l’oracolo. I responsi di Dedalo sono famosi progetti di case mai costruite (o scomparse) che bisogna confrontare e fare interferire con i temi moderni dell’abitare e del costruire. «Tra gl’Immortali [direbbe Borges] ogni atto (e ogni pensiero) è l’eco d’altri che nel passato lo precedettero […] o il fedele presagio di altri che nel futuro lo ripeteranno fino al…