Our \u201cSongs of stone\u201d series continues with a cycle of poetry readings dedicated entirely to the Roman Forum.<\/p>\n
Following Michele Placido\u2019s reading, Roberto Davi<\/strong> will read \u201cApollo\u201d<\/strong> by the writer-poet Gabriele Tinti<\/strong>, starting at 21:00<\/strong> on Friday 11 December<\/strong> on the Parco archeologico del Colosseo Facebook page and YouTube and IGTV channels. In celebration of the Agonalia<\/em>, the poem is dedicated to Apollo-Sol and inspired by the statuary once present in the Portico of the Harmonious Gods in the Roman Forum, on the slopes of the Campidoglio<\/strong>. Here, the statue of Apollo was likely paired with that of Diana.<\/p>\n The Portico of the Dii Consentes<\/em> once housed the statues of the twelve deities of the Roman pantheon, six male and six female, organized in pairs: Jupiter-Juno; Neptune-Minerva; Mars-Venus; Apollo-Diana; Vulcan-Vesta; Mercury-Ceres. Their cult in the Forum is documented in the 1st<\/sup> century BC by Varro, who mentions the gilded statues of the gods. The etymology seems to derive from the Latin verbs consentio<\/em> or conso<\/em>, which respectively mean \u201cto agree\u201d and \u201cto deliberate\u201d.<\/p>\n That statues that once stood in the portico have never been recovered, but from the numerous ideal sculptures on display in the Palatine Museum<\/strong>, a splendid Antium-type head of Apollo from the Domus Augustana<\/em><\/strong> has been chosen as an image of the god. 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