Preparing the Creative Workshop in Bologna curated by Teatro dell’Argine Here in Athens, we do things this way. Our government favours the many instead of the few: that is why it is called a democracy. [...] Our laws provide equal justice for all [...] and poverty is no obstacle [...] We are free to live exactly as we please [...] Our city is open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner. Here in Athens, we do things this way. — Pericles, Speech to the Athenians on Democracy, 431 BCE Europa and Athens The Bologna — more precisely San Lazzaro — session of The Legend of Europa will draw inspiration from the part of the myth that unfolds in and around the city of Athens. King Aegeus has made a terrible pact with another king, Minos: to avoid the destruction of his city, he agrees to send every year seven young men and seven young women to Crete, to be sacrificed to the monster held in the Labyrinth of Knossos — the Minotaur. This creature, called Asterion, is none other than the son ...