You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. BG 2:47

Intelligenti pauca (2020), PAR, Sant’Oreste in Rete … Percorsi e Tracce: arte all’aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, Sant'Oreste sul Soratte (Rome) IT

“… nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet…” Matthew 7:6

This performance was my critique to the establishment and the gregarious masses who fail to recognise the treasure before their eyes and consequently squander it.

The Latin expression, used as title, can be translated as "a few words are enough for the wise."

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Essay by Barbara Crostini with reference to Intelligenti Pauca: 🔗LINK

Citation: Crostini, Barbara. 2025. "Performing the Bible at Dura: A Panel of Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta as tableau vivant." In "Emotion and Performance in Late Antiquity and Byzantium," ed. Niki Tsironi, special issue, Classics@ 24.