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Review of Francesca Ghedini’s book “Lo sguardo degli antichi. Il racconto nell’arte classica”, published by Carocci. Ghedini presents a hermeneutic interpretation of images and the power they had for the ancients. The author makes images and words interact by comparing iconographies and iconologies with sources and material testimonies that have come down to our days. She shows the ancient world as crowded by vibrant images which became the channels of a culture that not only “saw” and “looked” at life, but also created a language endowed with intense force.

In this review of Lorenzo Braccesi’s Un poeta per Cassandra, dalla Troade al Lazio, published by L’Erma di Bretschenider in 2021, Maria Grazia Ciani offers a reading of the “obscure poem”, Alexandra, written by Lycophron. Braccesi’s is a fundamental study which illuminates the role of the cursed prophetess of Troy within the post-Homeric epic tradition.

This paper deals with the myth of Dana�� in Classical antiquity. The author discusses the multiple versions of the myth through an analysis of literary sources, by quoting and examining many texts by Ancient Greek and Latin authors such as ��� among others ��� Homer, Pindar, Simonides, Pseudo-Apollodorus, Lucian, Horace, Hyginus, Ovid.

M.G. Ciani discute la presenza a “livello subliminale” della letteratura greca e latina nei racconti di Virginia Woolf. L’autrice sostiene che i testi classici, e in particolare i miti antichi, forniscano alla Woolf una stanza immaginaria tutta per sé in cui la scrittrice (proprio come uno dei suoi personaggi, Jacob, nel racconto Jacob’s Room) trova uno spazio protetto, lontano dall’ansia e dagli orrori della seconda Guerra Mondiale. M.G. Ciani discusses the presence at a "subliminal level" of ancient Greek and Latin literature in the novels of Virginia Woolf. The author argues that classical texts, and in particular ancient myths, provide Woolf with an imaginary room of her own where the writer (just like one of her characters, Jacob, in the novel Jacob's Room) finds a protective space, hidden away from the anxiety and the horrors of the Second World War.