The Greeks “conquer” the ancient Pompeii. A new emotion awaits the tourists of the "Queen of archeology”. From April 14 until November 27 the Big Gym of the Excavations of Pompeii will host the exhibition "Pompeii and the Greeks": over 600 exhibits that tell the history of the encounter between the Pompeian civilization with the Greek world, through an immersive signed "Graphics eMotion”. The exhibition, curated by the Director General of Pompeii Massimo Osanna and Carlo Rescigno of the University of Campania, is promoted by the Pompeii Superintendency.
"Pompeii and the Greeks” tells the stories of a meeting: starting from an Italian town, Pompeii, it shows the frequent contact with the Greek civilization, following craftsmen, architects, decorative styles, focusing on precious imported objects but also on inscriptions in Greek on city walls, they focus the many different souls of an ancient city, its temporary and unstable identity. Over 600 exhibits including ceramics, ornaments, weapons, architectural elements, sculptures from Pompeii, Stabiae, Sorrento, Cuma, Capua, Poseidonia, Metaponto, Torre di Satriano and even inscriptions in different languages spoken - Greek, Etruscan, Paleoitalic - , silver and Greek sculptures reproduced in Roman times. The exhibition is a scientific project and ongoing research that for the first time shed light on unknown stretches of Pompeii: objects coming from leading national and European museums are divided into 13 thematic sections. This exhibition reconstructs the Greek appearances before Pompeii, the forms of the ancient city, the changes imposed in the Gulf after the foundation of Naples - of which are exposed unpublished material from the bottom of the seaport - until the Roman world. Thanks to this event, many Italian documents and monuments emigrated abroad came back. For example, visitors can see the helmets donated to Olympia by Ieron, the tyrant of Syracuse, to celebrate the victory of the Cumans on the Etruscans in a battle fought on the waters of the Gulf of Naples. It will be possible to rediscover, in the fragments of a monumental crater from Altamura, in Apulia, the story of Alexander the Great's battle against the Persian king Darius, in the same manner and in the same pattern that was made almost two centuries later in the "Great Mosaic" of the House of the Faun. From two drain, two garbage dumps, one found in the Agora of Athens, the great square of the main center of the Greek world, and one at the arcades of Pompeii hole, it is possible to observe the similarities between objects and tools that show forms of similar experience in the two centers in the second century BC. The exhibition design, which occupies the space of the Gymnasium of Pompeii, is designed by the Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi and includes three immersive audiovisual installations curated by the Canadian company GeM (Graphic eMotion). “Pompeii and the Greeks” illustrates the visitors the charm of a non-linear historical narrative, composed of multiple and contradictory identity, by layered languages, consciously re-used: the history of the Mediterranean area. A narrative that suggests a comparison and a reflection on our contemporary time with its dynamism made of migration and conflict, whit its encounters and clashes of cultures. The Pompeii exhibit is the first stage of an exhibition program carried out jointly with the Archaeological Museum of Naples: in June there will start an exhibition dedicated to the Greek myths in Pompeii and the Roman world. See Pompeii as it once was and book our special guided tour with Virtual Reality headsets!
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