Alias : miti còlti sul (manu)fatto

Engramma issue No. 183, “Alias. Miti còlti sul (manu)fatto” (a word pun with Italian police language “colti sul fatto”, caught in the act), edited by Monica Centanni and Maurizio Harari, is conceived as a homage to the memory of Giuseppe Pucci. Giuseppe (Pino) Pucci was a professor in Archaeology and Classics, but also a brilliant reader of the classical tradition in contemporary culture. The title includes the word “Alias” (in latin meaning “altrimenti”/otherwise – otherwise in time, otherwise in places, otherwise in academy, otherwise from a short-view specialistic discipline, otherwise from ideological prejudices; otherwise in all senses) – the style-cypher of Pucci’s intellectual work. Otherwise, “Alias” is the special weekly issue of the Italian newspaper “il manifesto” where he published his last contributions concerning classics and the classical tradition. All the essays in this issue of Engramma relate to the theme of the relationship between texts and images, from Antiquity to Contemporary culture. The contributions by Oliver Taplin, Monica Centanni, Alessandro Grilli, Ludovico Rebaudo, Concetta Cataldo and Rocco Davide Vacca are related to the topic “Pots&Plays”, the analysis of the interactions between Greek theatrical texts and V and IV Century vase paintings. Maurizio Harari and Claudio Franzoni in their essays have focused on the mechanism of the Classical tradition through specific XX Century iconographies. In this issue, we also publish the response by Salvatore Settis to the “Lettura corale”, a choral reading of his book Incursioni that was issued in Engramma No. 180, and was promoted and curated by Giuseppe Pucci himself. In addition, this issue includes Giuseppe Pucci’s bibliography and the list of the classical dramas performed by the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico (INDA) since 1914.