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Read more Somnium Emmae wins a prestigious award at Thalia 2026!
on 13 August 2026
How can Cicero speak to young people today? Blending classical inspiration with contemporary sensibility, the theatre piece Somnium Emmae, created by Ermanno Malaspina (IT) and his students and directed by Micol Jalla (IT), is an answer to just that question. The play is a dreamlike reinterpretation of Archias’s existential experience between inclusion and exclusion, seen through the eyes of a modern-day high school student who hates both Latin and Cicero. Yet, like Archias, she searches for her true personal and cultural identity: in the end, she discovers not only herself but also the beauty of the Latin language. At the Turin conference of Europa Ciceroniana, the participants have seen a first version of this piece (see the Fall 2025 Newsletter)
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Read more Summer 2026 Newsletter
5 July 2026
Read the latest updates on the Europa Ciceroniana project here.
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Read more Conference on Actio in Turin
7 June 2026
A great line-up of researchers on Actio in Roman rhetoric!
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