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. The sculpture is one of the best Imperial-age Roman replicas of a Greek original from the late 4th<\/sup> century BC.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our \u201cSongs of stone\u201d series continues with a cycle of poetry readings dedicated entirely to the Roman Forum. Following Michele Placido\u2019s reading, Roberto Davi will read \u201cApollo\u201d by the writer-poet Gabriele Tinti, starting at 21:00 on Friday 11 December on the Parco archeologico del Colosseo Facebook page and YouTube and IGTV channels. In celebration of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20049,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"location_evento":[],"tribe_events_cat":[222],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20101"}],"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":2,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20103,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20101\/revisions\/20103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20101"},{"taxonomy":"location_evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_evento?post=20101"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=20101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}