Homer "pompier", Pausanias' statuary parade, Medea the Rashomonised heroine, effects of reality in Cicero's letters, Seneca's philosophical horror, Plutarch's celebrity couples, Augustine's Confessions on Moana Pozzi's bedside table. These and a hundred other lively readings offer an experiment on the Greek and Latin classics: putting the ancients in constant tension with the contemporary, through a critical style based on figurative flashes and enthusiasm, always crossing the literary with the lived, twentieth-century philology with the tics of the global world. The battery of “electric” readings is preceded by a historical-sentimental essay on the role of the Classics from the 1970s to the present day.