After the resounding success of Alessandro Haber\u2019s performance at the Palatine Museum, \u201cSongs of stone\u201d continues with a cycle of poetry readings dedicated entirely to the Roman Forum.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re kicking things off on Saturday 5 December<\/strong>: starting at 21:00 on the Parco archeologico del Colosseo Facebook page and YouTube channel, Michele Placido<\/strong> will read several poems by the writer and poet Gabriele Tinti<\/strong> inspired by the statuary once present in the Portico Dii Consentes<\/em> <\/strong>(Portico of the Harmonious Gods) in the Roman Forum<\/strong>, on the slopes of the Campidoglio.<\/p>\n The Portico, once a place of worship, is situated beside the aedes Divi Vespasiani<\/em> along the clivus Capitolinus<\/em>, on the other side of which stands the monumental Temple of Saturn. The building, heavily reconstructed in the 19th<\/sup> century, was identified thanks to a late inscription present on its architrave. Inside the monument, the simulacra of the Harmonious Gods were kept. The Dii Consentes<\/em> are the twelve deities of the Roman pantheon, six male and six female, organized in couples: 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 The poetry penned by Tinti and read by Placido will evoke some of those sculptures once present in the Portico<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the resounding success of Alessandro Haber\u2019s performance at the Palatine Museum, \u201cSongs of stone\u201d continues with a cycle of poetry readings dedicated entirely to the Roman Forum. We\u2019re kicking things off on Saturday 5 December: starting at 21:00 on the Parco archeologico del Colosseo Facebook page and YouTube channel, Michele Placido will read several… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19949,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"location_evento":[36],"tribe_events_cat":[222],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19996,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19993\/revisions\/19996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19993"},{"taxonomy":"location_evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_evento?post=19993"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=19993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}