The olive tree and oil in the thoughts and words of poets: from D'Annunzio to Lorca, from Neruda to Montale
A
thousand-year-old plant that has inspired in antiquity as well as in
modernity. Its historical and landscape value can also be recovered with
some good reading.
An olive branch, carried in the beak of a dove, announced to Noah the end of the flood.
This
is not the only legend that surrounds the olive tree and makes it
immortal. Zeus decided to give Athens and Attiva as a gift to the God
who would provide this land with the most useful gift. Athena and
Poseidon challenge each other. Poseidon will provide the horse, Athena
the olive tree. Zeus judges his daughter goddess as the winner,
maintaining that the horse is for war while the olive tree is for peace.
