The BR Motzo Classical, Linguistic, and Human Sciences High School opens its doors to the public for an immersion into the roots of Western thought: starting January 21st, a series of meetings on Greek language and culture will resume, designed for students, teachers, and anyone who wants to engage, without intimidation, with the foundation of our lexicon and imagination. For a few afternoons, the school will become a cultural hub and a place for discussion, outside the ritual of the classroom.
The event kicks off on Wednesday, January 21st at 4:30 PM with the conference "The Ancient Greek Language: The Fascination of a Discovery." Professor Gianfranco Rosas will lead the inaugural meeting: the methodological premise is clear: Greek is not a museum "exhibit," but a tool for interpreting modernity, a laboratory of words, categories, and nuances capable of clarifying political, ethical, and philosophical concepts even today, and of deepening our understanding of the words that define us: democracy, crisis, politics, ethics, tragedy.
After the first performance, every Wednesday the series will delve into the heart of tragic drama, where theater becomes a vehicle for collective understanding. The program will explore the intersection of guilt and punishment in Aeschylus's Oresteia Trilogy, interpreted as a transition from private vengeance to state justice; then Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, exploring the enigma of the unpredictable and the search for truth; and finally Euripides's Medea, exploring the conflict between rationality and irrationality, between logos and passion.
The initiative aims to be a space for discussion and re-appropriation: returning to the classics not out of nostalgia, but to examine the present. Understanding which mental and narrative forms, born there, continue to inhabit the present and why the Greek language remains one of the most fertile keys to understanding it. An invitation, in essence, to re-examine ancient questions to guide those of today.
