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Quote from  Euripides' Medea.

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why do I have to hurt my children to punish my husband?

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We narrated the world Myths

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is the foundation of our European civilization

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and of Western civilization

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It can horrify the idea of a mother killing a child

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as the Tereo's wife does when she kills her son and feeds him to her husband.

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Even Medea, another myth of the ancient world, did the same

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she kills her children to revenge on her husband Jason who betrayed her

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There's no just cruelty, the meaning is deeper than that

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she wants radically extinguish that man's descendants

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If Medea had killed her husband, if Tereo's wife had done it

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she wouldn't have had the same result

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because those men would go on living through their children

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Killing them will extinguish a lineage, it's as if they were never born

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Not having existed is the great fear of the Western world

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starting from the Greek world, peculiar go that civilization

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So they are afraid to die at sea, leaving no trace of yourself.

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That's how the cenotaph was invented

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a sepulcher without the body, but that reminds the person

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the sepulchre must never be missing, is the memory

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Do you remember Ugo Foscolo: “Sepulchres"? The importance of memory

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Monument, that in Latin means the sign of someone who has existed

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I want to remember a sentence of a woman coming from Senegal

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a civilization far from ours crossing the Mediterranean Sea

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"the past fecundates the present, makes it fertile so that the future can exist"

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the woman who writes crossed the Mediterranean Sea,

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the world of Dionysus that we try to keep away