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Il santuario di Zeus Olympios ad Agrigento: al di là del tempio monumentale
2020
The paper aims to reassess the entire architectural and archaeological evidence of the southern part of the sanctuary of Zeus Olympios. This includes the oikos near the SE corner of the big temple (with two building phases dated respectively to the mid-6th century and to the first half of the 5th century), and the area with a large pool and two halls located to the south. This is equipped with a complex drainage system connected with two big cisterns. All these structures can now be referred to as a coherent building program carried out from 480 to 450 B.C. The monumentality of the buildings and infrastructures reflects a grandeur of the rituals that has not been previously addressed. Until…
Il femminile tra la terra e il cielo: mediazioni in forma di musica
2021
La devozione tributata in Sicilia alla Madonna e alle Sante, tuttora ampiamente diffusa a livello popolare, è ancora parzialmente associate specifiche pratiche musicali, in prevalenza riconducibili a consuetudini di matrice ecclesiastica. In alcuni casi si riscontra tuttavia la permanenza di comportamenti musicali e coreutici che rinviano a una matrice rituale arcaica, connessa alle declinazioni “femminili” del sacro e alla propiziazione della salute, della fertilità e dell’abbondanza. The devotion paid in Sicily to the Madonna and the Saints, still widely spread at the popular level, is still partially associated with specific musical practices, mainly attributable to customs of an ecclesi…