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A \u201csatura\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn former times the name satire was given to a poem composed of pieces of different kinds (carmen quod ex uariispoematibusconstabat) […].\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSatura is a dish composed of different ingredients, and a law formed by uniting several laws, and a type of poem uniting several subjects.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cA modern philologist […] derives satura from an Etruscan word meaning \u2018speak\u2019.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n (William Beare: <\/span>The Roman Stage<\/i><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n A proposito di noi etruschi\u00a0<\/i><\/span>aims to contribute to the understanding of the Etruscan world through the reading of passages by various authors who have spoken of the Etruscans or of matters related to them.<\/span><\/p>\n The Etruscans are a people who have always been surrounded, for our culture and for each of us, by an aura of mystery. The unintelligible script; the usages and customs so different from the ones that would prevail later under Roman rule; the social system, if not exactly matriarchal then certainly one in which the sexes were treated on equal terms; the art, so refined and so different, the enigmatic aspect of its representations of human beings; the ostentatious cult of the dead; the sacred groves and the haruspices; the uncertain and perhaps distant origin of the people: all this helps to build a sense of presence and indefinability at one and the same time… The Etruscans have always stirred our imagination and made us uneasy.<\/span><\/p>\n A selection of extracts from poems, by writers like Apollonius of Rhodes, Homer ad Carducci, and historical texts, from Theopompus to Livy, a digression into D.H. Lawrence\u2019s fascinating travel book and other more or less well-known sources will help to get the audience to picture a vanished world.<\/span><\/p>\n Marina Spreafico<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Performance commissioned by the Archeological Museum of Milan on the occasion of the exhibition <\/i><\/span>Gli Etruschi<\/span> and by the\u00a0Comitato Nazionale Sport e Cultura per la Pace on the occasion of the Athens Olympics in 2004 as part of the festival <\/i><\/span>Le altre civilt\u00e0: l\u2019Etruria<\/span> \u2013 Volterra<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A \u201csatura\u201d \u201cIn former times the name satire was given to a poem composed of pieces of different kinds (carmen quod ex uariispoematibusconstabat) […].\u201d \u201cSatura is a dish composed of different ingredients, and a law formed by uniting several laws, and a type of poem uniting several subjects.\u201d \u201cA modern philologist […] derives satura from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenale-teatro","tag-99"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FotoEtruschi03.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}