I am interested in everything concerning Antiquity, not only from a philological perspective, but also from the point of view of History, Anthropology, Philosophy,… but if I have to limit myself to a particular aspect, so Mythology and Survival of Greece and Rome in Literature and the Arts are subject of special interest for me. Between the authors who have fascinated me a place of honor correspond to Ovid. His Ibis was the subject of my PhD, and in one way or another, either through their works, and for his influence on posterity, I always learn and enjoy from this poet “one of the most interesting of all aenigmas” in words of Ezra Pound.

The importance of classical authors is evident in many facets of our daily lives. Writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, filmmakers … have returned their eyes to the past to reinterpret the present.

The undeniable validity of the ancient world is an irrefutable argument against those who, under cover of ignorance, talk about “dead languages” to refer to Latin and Greek, invaluable tool in the transmission of knowledge and in the acquisition of other languages, especially those coming from the rich Indo-European trunk. The classics teach us every day that there is only one desire nobler than the thirst for knowledge, and it is sharing our learning and trying to pass on our knowledge to new generations.

It is a great privilege to appreciate and to enjoy this universal heritage, and today technical means provide us almost unlimited resources. Renouncing Greece and Rome represents for Occident the mutilation of our roots. Thus, the universality of knowledge, by the aesthetic delight that involves perceiving sound echoes of voices that can never be extinguished, we must assert the ancient world continues alive today and probably, in spite of the adversities, it will be so forever.