Title: Antonio La Penna, Io e l’antico. Conversazione con Arnaldo Marcone
Abstract: Readers of this remarkable little book would be well advised to start from its iconographical appendix. There is a widespread, antagonistic and comforting narrative that dominates much of the discourse on Classics as a subject, especially in English-speaking countries: that it is the domain of privilege and entitlement, the perquisite of sheltered and propertied minorities, the quintessential ivory tower. It takes a cursory glance at the photograph of the square of Bisaccia, the small town in...