Monografie di Agathòn. Atti del Symposium East-West Artistic and Technological Contaminations/Oriente-Occidente. Contaminazioni Artistiche e Tecnologiche

Abstract

AgAthón, the Ph.D.’s journal collecting together the best of the works about the renovation and the enhancement of ancient contexts, has had increasing success among institutions and both Italian and foreign researchers. The choral pattern chosen in the four sectors, which alludes to the Greek city, has certainly contributed to create this appreciation: the Agorá, like the central space in the pólis, for guest contributions; the Stoá, the covered portico under which the philosopher Zeno used to teach his disciples, for the Ph.D. teachers’ contributions; the gymnásion, the place of endeavour for young Greeks training their bodies and minds, is the section meant for the doctoral candidates; lastly, the Sekós, i.e. the part of the house where the young people used to dwell, as described by Plato in his Republic, is assigned to young graduates. In this way, we have created a common approach to the topics dealt with and the related disciplines; this shared and plural approach is borne out by the large number of applications with articles to be published in the various issues. Hence the need for the editorial staff to ensure a monographic and multi-disciplinary area: a syllogé, meant as an anthological collection of scientific writings, concerning an author’s or a group of authors’ production, as a cultural and literary gleaning of the stubble left over in a field after the harvest and, therefore, as a collection of topics not entirely and not always of secondary relevance.