Pedro Olalla’s conversation with Mireia Rosich

Atlas mitologíco de Grecia (Eclecta Editorial) is a singular atlas, a unique book: an exhaustive compendium of Greek mythology presented in its real settings. This new version, updated and expanded, revises and enriches Pedro Olalla’s classic work on the geography of Greek myths.

The result of many years of field research, this monumental work draws on all the mythological information contained in the works of more than a hundred authors from Antiquity to offer it compiled and organized on the territory of present-day Greece. In this way, the extremely complex amalgam of ancient myths is intertwined with the evocation of present-day places and with the material remains that still remain among us. A true feast for any enthusiast of ancient Greece.

Pedro Olalla (Asturias) is a writer, Hellenist, professor, translator and filmmaker, established in Athens since 1994. His literary and audiovisual work explores and disseminates Greek and humanist culture by combining literary, plastic and scientific elements through a markedly personal language. For his entire career and for his work in the promotion of Greek culture, he has received, among other recognitions, the titles of Ambassador of Hellenism (Greek State), Knight of the Order of Civil Merit (Spanish State) and Associate Member of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. Acantilado has published the essays Historia menor de Grecia (2012), Grecia en el aire (2015), De senectute politica (2018) and Palabras del Egeo (2022), the commemorative edition Cervantes y Grecia (2016) and the translations of Lirio y serpiente (2013), by Nikos Kazantzakis, and El apuesto capitán (2024), by Menis Koumandareas.

Mireia Rosich (Tarragona) is director of the Víctor Balaguer Museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú. She has published articles related to the museum’s collections, both in catalogs and in other types of publications. As a result of her educational work in the field of mythology, she has published the essay La esencia del mito / En la estela del mito (Editorial Kairós, 2021), focused on female figures in classical mythology. She has a degree in Art History and a master’s degree in Cultural Management from the UB, and has a postgraduate degree in Design and Production of Exhibition Projects from Elisava (Pompeu Fabra University). From the direction of the museum she has promoted museological projects and museographic reforms, as well as the programming, coordination and curation of temporary exhibitions. Among her most recent publications, she highlights the collaboration in the volume La presencia del Prado, episodios de una historia (2019).

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