Dr. Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege) / Presents: Dr. Ángel Morillo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
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Dr. Fabrizio Pesando (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) .
Cycle “Dialogues with the classical world”, September 6 to December 20, 2017.
From archaic times in Greece, we have news that women participated in the Dionysian cults organised by the polis, in menadic rites and in mystical cults. The activity “With strips and madly: maenads and bacchantes on the run” aims to approach this reality from different perspectives and to show, through texts and iconography, the rites in which women took part, the functions they performed as worshippers and priestesses, the clothes, adornments and attributes that identified them as followers of Dionysus, the setting of the rites and the state of enthusiasm and delirium that the bacchantes reached in some cases.
Dr. Fabrizio Pesando (University of Naples “L’Orientale”).
Cycle “Dialogues with the classical world”, September 6 to December 20, 2017.
Dr. Simon Keay (University of Southampton).
Cycle “Dialogues with the classical world”, September 6 to December 20, 2017.
Dra. Anna María Reggiani (Ministero dei Beni ed Attivitá Culturali).
Cycle “Dialogues with the classical world”, September 6 to December 20, 2017.
Dra. Francesca Cenerini (Università di Bologna).
Cycle “Dialogues with the classical world”, September 6 to December 20, 2017.
Cycle “Dialogues with the classical world”, September 6 to December 20, 2017.
Dra. Silvia Orlandi (Sapienza, Università di Roma).
Cycle “Dialogues with the classical world”, September 6 to December 20, 2017.
The Tresminas mining area is one of the most spectacular cultural landscapes in northwest Hispania. About 2000 years ago, a detachment of one of the powerful Roman legions settled in the Serra da Pradela to organise and control the large-scale gold mining of Tresminas and Jales (Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Vila Real, Portugal).
The spectacular traces of this exploitation can still be seen at Tresminas: two large mining cuttings (Covas and Ribeirinha) and a smaller one (Lagoinhos), as well as deep galleries dug mainly to allow the treatment and evacuation of all the extracted rock and an extensive network of water supply channels for the mines, which start in dams and end in storage reservoirs.
Galeria dos Alargamentos
There are also enormous dumps that fill the valleys and one of the most characteristic elements of this mining area: a large number of granite pestle and mortar mills used in the final grinding of the ore.
But there also remain important testimonies of the men and women who lived and worked in Tresminas, and who died there in the first two centuries of our Era. As a result of the activity carried out there for more than 200 years, these gold mines have become one of the most important in the entire Roman Empire. Today, the gold mining territory of Tresminas, being the most complex and best preserved and extending over several kilometres, is the most important in Roman Portugal.
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