Rievocare Antigone:
spazio, luoghi, porosità
Article by Lorena Grigoletto
La voce / le voci delle donne, dalla classicità all’era dell’intelligenza artificiale
Patrizia Landi & Stefano Lombardi Vallauri (Eds.), LED, 2026, pp. 39–54.
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new article by our fellow Lorena Grigoletto, “Rievocare Antigone: spazio, luoghi, porosità” (“Recalling Antigone: Space, Places, Porosity”), in a collective volume exploring women’s voices from classical antiquity to the age of artificial intelligence.
The article examines how theatrical space shapes contemporary reinterpretations of Sophocles’ Antigone, with particular attention to the Spanish philosopher María Zambrano’s La tumba de Antígona (The Tomb of Antigone). Reading Zambrano alongside Jean Anouilh and Bertolt Brecht, Grigoletto explores the philosophical significance of relocating the tragedy from the palace of Thebes, associated with law and political authority, to the enclosed space of the tomb.
In Zambrano’s rewriting, the tomb becomes a place of self-understanding and renewal. Antigone is granted the time to confront her history, recover the possibilities of a life left unlived, and move beyond the roles imposed upon her. Drawing on the figure of Orpheus and the descent into the underworld, Grigoletto shows how this encounter with darkness opens a path towards the emergence of the person.
Central to the argument is the concept of porosity. Although Antigone remains confined, the tomb’s walls allow other figures to enter, speak, and participate in her transformation. Becoming a person thus unfolds through relationships: Antigone’s renewal is inseparable from that of those who visit her, a process the article describes as “co-birth.”
Connecting this spatial reading with Zambrano’s conception of poetic reason, the article explores a form of thinking that welcomes dimensions of experience excluded by rigid definitions and structures of domination. Theatre, poetry, and philosophy meet in a space where women’s voices can challenge inherited roles and open possibilities for personal and collective transformation.
We warmly congratulate Lorena on this publication.
Read the article (PDF, in Italian) →
Citation: Grigoletto, Lorena (2026). “Rievocare Antigone: spazio, luoghi, porosità.” In Patrizia Landi and Stefano Lombardi Vallauri (Eds.), La voce / le voci delle donne, dalla classicità all’era dell’intelligenza artificiale. Milano: LED, pp. 39–54. DOI: 10.7359/2510-2026-gril.
About the Author
Lorena Grigoletto is a long-term fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” (GloPhi) at the University of Hildesheim. Her research focuses on Spanish and Latin American philosophy, aesthetics, and intercultural thought. She holds a doctorate in philosophy from the universities of Naples Federico II and Seville and directs a research programme at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. Her publications include Lógoi. Sul sentiero “orfico-pitagorico” di María Zambrano (2022). Her recent work explores representations of nature, postcolonial imaginaries, and the relationship between environmental aesthetics and urban design.