Various literary testimonies tell us how the baths of the Urbe were anything but silent. Bathers would noisily discuss current affairs and politics, players would count at the top of their lungs how many passes they could make with a ball, while beauticians would talk loudly with the women undergo...

If we think about how the mosaics were created, it is easy to imagine the atmosphere of a building site, with its many noises: the tapping of the lapidarius structor, who broke the stones to create the tiles; the movements of the pictor parietarius, who pierced the medium on which he or she had draw...

Diodorus tells us that Esseneto, a famous Akragantine athlete, won the stadion at two consecutive editions of the Olympics. The stadion was a discipline similar to today’s running races. For this reason the athlete, returning from the competitions, entered the city with an escort of 300 chario...

In Roman tragedies, the cantica were the parts in which dialogue was accompanied by the orchestra; originally they alternated with conversations, but during the Empire the taste of the masses who began to frequent the theatre became more and more established, and conversations were cut in favour of ...

In the Roman Empire, the custom of transforming the buildings of the Bouleuterion into Odeon spread in many cities of Magna Graecia. Let’s close our eyes and enter the Odeon in Agrigento, where a competition of music and poetry is taking place. The intimate room and the roof allow us to hear t...

The Sanctuary of Asclepius was located outside the walls of Agrigento, far from the noise of the city. It was a very quiet place, where the sick had to rest to heal: for this reason its atmosphere was very relaxing. Patients would be lulled by the sounds of the surrounding nature or the rustling o...

On the first terrace of the Sanctuary, the worshippers would meet in the reception and meeting halls of the portico and with offerings began their visit to the temples. As soon as the procession began, the chatter of the people was replaced by singing that accompanied the procession to the second ...