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The paper aims at analysing the existence, from Classical era to Late Antiquity, of the same and rather stereotypical conception regarding Chaldean (or Babylonian) culture - especially in the so-called Neoplatonic philosophers - despite the figure of Berossus, a native of Babylon and the author of a history of the region in Greek, who could have offered a reconstruction faithful to Babylonian tradition. Through an analysis of the fragments based also on the hermeneutical approach of Interpretivism, the paper will try to show how Berossus spontaneously adhered to the conception (if not the stereotypes) with which the Greeks used to portray the Chaldeans, and thus how he legitimized them in some ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the two films of the Taviani brothers through which the Tuscan directors have narrated the early 20th century Italian diaspora in the United States: the first episode of Kaos, the 1984 film based partly on Pirandello’s Novelle per un anno, and the 1987 film Good morning, Babylon. Besides analyzing various sequences of the films, especially those related to the departure, arrival and pursuit of the American dream, in this paper I explain how both films aimed not only to recall the relevance of a social-historical phenomenon such as the great migration, but also by reflecting on the present and the future, the films force us to focus on the drama of those who today are forced to leave their homeland in search of a better future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]