Salesian Institute Students Participate in 'Greek Text Marathon'

The students of the Salesian Institute Vomero Sacro Cuore, directed by Franco Gallone, also participated in the IX edition of the 'Greek Text Marathon', organized on the occasion of the World Day of the Greek Language, together with numerous classical high schools from Campania, in the basilica of San Giovanni Maggiore in Naples. Guided by teachers Agostino Ferrara, Annachiara di Maio and Annalisa Merolla, the students of the third and fifth classical high school of Don Bosco presented a scene from the 'Eumenides' by Aeschylus, staging the persecution of the Erinyes, the avenging forces invoked by Clytemnestra, against the matricide Orestes. A theatrical choice...studied. The mythical story, in fact, determines a reflection of political scope, namely the transition from the system of archaic culture to the laws of the polis. The celebration of the trial, the institution of the court, through the operation of Athena and the consequent acquittal of Orestes, indeed present a new world, in which conflicts are regulated by law and rational justice produces progress and civilization.