(ANSA)- Massa Carrara, June 8 - Students at a classics high
school in the Tuscan city of Massa will stage a 20-hour
oceanside reading of the Odyssey, beginning Friday June 12.
The marathon reading by 80 students as well as high school
alumnae and professors kicks off at 8p.m. on a stage built on
Marina di Massa beach and will continue uninterrupted until
5p.m. on Saturday, June 30.
The reading is being held with the patronage of Massa
municipality and Mondi Possibili (Possible Worlds) cultural
association.
The 80 student participants have been studying Homer's epic
poem for the entire year, in a translation by Franco Ferrari.
The poem narrating the seafaring adventures of Ulysses as
he returned home after the fall of Troy is the second oldest
extant work of Western literature after the Iliad.
Scholars believe it was composed near the end of the 8th
century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of
Anatolia.
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