Greenaway unveils Agrippa project

(ANSA) - Rome, September 19 - Welsh film-maker, artist and painter Peter Greenaway said Friday he will produce a multi-media project dedicated to "Agrippa, the right-hand man and brother-in-law of the Emperor Augustus".
    Greenaway made the announcement at the Festival of Memory at the Virtual Museum at Herculaneum, an event staged under the auspices of the Universal Cultural Forum.
    "I went to Herculaneum first when I was 21," the director said.
    "I was fascinated by the power that these ruins have to recount history".
    "For me history does not exist, only the historians who recount it and in their accounts there always is an element of falsehood.
    "Aggripa has always fascinated me because in an era in which there was a great struggle for power, he chose, and in some way accepted, to live in the shadow of the Emperor Augustus.
    "In my story, which will be recounted with a film, an exhibit, a performance and a website, I will make Agrippa die at Pompeii," Greenaway said.