International audienceLiving halfway between the real and the imaginary, the legendary is the natural habitat for the metaphor. In the case of wild nature, like volcanoes,one of the oldest metaphors of these places is that of giants. This figure is also present for Vesuvius, which rises near Naples, in southern Italy, where would live trapped Alcyonaeus, the leader of the rebels who fought the gods of Greek Olympus in the mythological Gigantomachy. The mount Vesuvius, being more than an expression of nature, because it is a real cultural object “good to think”, over the last two millennia, but especially in the last four centuries, has become a symbol, whose meaning changes depending on the context and according to what we want to be said. ...
The risk concept, meant as hierarchical historical and cultural product, is a social elaboration acq...
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The Italian Peninsula is unique in the world for the high number, more than fifty, of recent to acti...
International audienceLiving halfway between the real and the imaginary, the legendary is the natura...
Abstracts Starting from the vesuvian eruption in 1631 emerge many cultural forms about some places...
This article is dedicated to the Campania region (South West Italy), a complex region both for envi...
Il Vesuvio è considerato un vulcano simbolo dal punto di vista del rapporto uomo-natura e dei risch...
Starting from the vesuvian eruption in 1631 emerge many cultural forms about some places adjacent t...
Il Vesuvio può essere considerato la peculiarità chimica del territorio del Regno di Napoli, in alme...
The actual interventions of enviromental retraining in Vesuvius territory start of presupposition to...
Il Somma-Vesuvio insieme a Campi Flegrei, Procida e Ischia è uno dei quattro vulcani presenti nell’...
La narrazione collettiva del grand tour del Vesuvio unifica arte, natura e architettura per dar vita...
La risalita al vulcano, più conosciuto al mondo per il suo elevatissimo rischio, dalla strada origin...
Tra la fine del Settecento e i primi decenni dell’Ottocento, il Vesuvio e tutta l’area vulcanica del...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004How do nature and culture influence one another? This...
The risk concept, meant as hierarchical historical and cultural product, is a social elaboration acq...
Le processioni, i rituali mariani, e il ricorso ai santi sono state le principali difese del popolo ...
The Italian Peninsula is unique in the world for the high number, more than fifty, of recent to acti...
International audienceLiving halfway between the real and the imaginary, the legendary is the natura...
Abstracts Starting from the vesuvian eruption in 1631 emerge many cultural forms about some places...
This article is dedicated to the Campania region (South West Italy), a complex region both for envi...
Il Vesuvio è considerato un vulcano simbolo dal punto di vista del rapporto uomo-natura e dei risch...
Starting from the vesuvian eruption in 1631 emerge many cultural forms about some places adjacent t...
Il Vesuvio può essere considerato la peculiarità chimica del territorio del Regno di Napoli, in alme...
The actual interventions of enviromental retraining in Vesuvius territory start of presupposition to...
Il Somma-Vesuvio insieme a Campi Flegrei, Procida e Ischia è uno dei quattro vulcani presenti nell’...
La narrazione collettiva del grand tour del Vesuvio unifica arte, natura e architettura per dar vita...
La risalita al vulcano, più conosciuto al mondo per il suo elevatissimo rischio, dalla strada origin...
Tra la fine del Settecento e i primi decenni dell’Ottocento, il Vesuvio e tutta l’area vulcanica del...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004How do nature and culture influence one another? This...
The risk concept, meant as hierarchical historical and cultural product, is a social elaboration acq...
Le processioni, i rituali mariani, e il ricorso ai santi sono state le principali difese del popolo ...
The Italian Peninsula is unique in the world for the high number, more than fifty, of recent to acti...