{"id":341,"date":"2016-03-24T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/?p=341"},"modified":"2016-03-24T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T17:02:30","slug":"green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/sicily\/green\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hills Are Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><video src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_7793-1.mov\" poster=\"\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>As we scampered down the hills of Segesta to head back to the bus, I couldn&#8217;t help but feel like I was an extra in the <em>Sound of Music<\/em>. The stunning landscape of Segesta presented nearly\u00a0every shade of green to my hungry eyes as I tried to take it all in. As we frolicked the fields, I was reminded of descriptions of the nature of Sicily in Book V of the Aeneid.\u00a0The scenery of these games is mentioned as being amidst a \u201cgramineum campum\u201d (line 286; <i>a grassy field<\/i>). This grass is noted as being \u201cviridis\u201d (line 330; <i>fresh\/green<\/i>) in contrast to the red blood which sabotages Nisus\u2019 victory. This brilliance of color in Sicily is also mirrored in\u00a0<i>Cavalleria Rusticana<\/i>, the first film that we watched with the Italian class.\u00a0<i>Cavalleria Rusticana<\/i> features several scenes that take place in green, grassy sprawls of land, just like the ones here in Segesta. The Aeneid also notes that the two Sicilians competing in the footrace, Helymus and Panopes, are uniquely \u201cadsueti silvis\u201d (line 301; <i>accustomed to forests<\/i>). The rustic nature of Sicilians is also reflected in the film, as the characters sing as they frolick across the hillsides, tending to their animals and completing their farm work. As a Classics major who can usually be found cramped up in the Stacks, translating hundreds of lines of Latin and trying\u00a0to\u00a0imagine the scenes which ancient authors describe, it was truly extraordinary to be able to actually experience the breathtaking Sicilian countryside\u00a0which Vergil had promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we scampered down the hills of Segesta to head back to the bus, I couldn&#8217;t help but feel like I was an extra in the Sound of Music. The stunning landscape of Segesta presented nearly\u00a0every shade of green to my hungry eyes as I tried to take it all in. As we frolicked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicily","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}