It was never easy to return from Troy! After nine years of fierce fighting, the valiant Idomeneo, King of Crete, son of Deucalion and grandson of Minos, will meet his terrible fate on his return to the island, as he will be the cause of his son’s death. The myth will know different versions and will go beyond the frontiers of antiquity until it reaches the 18th century, where numerous recreations will take place, including Mozart’s famous opera, Idomeneo, premiered in 1781.
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Cycle of conferences whose aim is to disseminate astronomy through initiatives in numerous cultural entities in Madrid, disseminating their collections and promoting meetings and communication between the different areas of knowledge.
In recent decades, archaeology has witnessed an interesting process of methodological renewal related to the incorporation of numerous digital tools and resources. To the growing use of geographic information technologies (GIT) or geospatial data available in open access (aerial photography, satellite images, LiDAR), we must add the extension of new technical equipment -such as drones- and the remarkable progress experienced by the so-called archaeological sciences -geophysical methods, palaeoenvironmental analysis, dating systems, etc.-.
The Romanarmy collective has experienced these changes at the forefront of research, incorporating them into our methodology with the aim of better understanding the impact of the extension of the Roman state on the diverse archaeological landscapes of northwestern Iberia. The voluminous information obtained now allows us to overcome the old narratives about this phenomenon -excessively based on Greco-Latin sources- and to propose new interpretative models. This archaeology of the new millennium cannot focus solely on the study of the Roman army as an agent of change, but must also analyse the role played by the indigenous communities, which retained a certain decision-making capacity in the process.
The conference presents the final results of two consecutive research projects HAR2009-11334, El desarrollo de las guerras civiles romanas y la transformación del mundo indígena en el sureste de Hispania, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and HAR2012-32754, Las huellas de las guerras civiles romanas en el sureste de Hispania. Conflicts and cultural transformation, funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
A series of enclaves located on the north coast of Alicante, considered to be small Iberian settlements from the final phase, 2nd-1st centuries BC, which are now identified as small forts of the Roman civil wars built by the Sertorian army around 77 BC, are reviewed. The analysis of their location in relation to the geographical and maritime environment confirms that they constituted an intercommunicated network, with great effectiveness in the strategy of controlling the traffic of the Senatorial ships off the Alicante coast on their way from Ebusus to Carthago Nova and, if necessary, the assault on them, aided by the Cilician pirate fleet to stockpile the products they were transporting. At the same time, the garrisons stationed in these forts would complete their supplies with products derived from the economic activity of the Iberian population in the interior of the valleys, where they would even provide themselves with auxiliary soldiers. This confirms the alliance of the Iberian Contestans with Sertorius, as recorded by Titus Livy in Periocha XCI. Thus, in contrast to the traditional discourse based on the silence of the written sources, the archaeological data show that the south-eastern area of the peninsula, and the province of Alicante in particular, played an important role in the territorial and maritime strategy of the Roman civil conflicts in Hispania.
The Roman mining of lapis specularis played an important role in the early Empire, during the 1st and early 2nd centuries AD, among the lapidary materials demanded and incorporated into the architectural programmes implemented, especially in the cities, due to the need for large windows that would allow light and sunlight to pass through, also allowing the exterior to be seen and ensuring climatic comfort. It was at this juncture that specular gypsum made its place as one of the best materials that met the required characteristics, and where the glass mines of Hispania, with greater production, and with a mineral of higher quality and transparency than those of other areas, would impose themselves on the markets, making this resource a versatile and essential product in many of its applications.
Few things define human beings better than the way they feed themselves. In fact, what was once a primary need (to eat was to live) has become an activity that has transformed a large part of the planet’s landscapes, has selected and promoted animal and plant species, has created an immense diversity and cultural, technological and economic wealth around it..
What’s more, eating gives us pleasure just by imagining it… and it can also contribute to or damage our health, depending on our choice. Eating brings us together around a table. It nourishes our bodies and, at the same time, our society.
From the Neanderthal to the supermarket is a series of conferences whose aim is to show what we ate from prehistoric times to what we eat today. A tasty journey that runs parallel to our history and civilisation.
The Food Technology and Engineering Research Group of the University of Cadiz and the “From Turdetania to Baetica” research group of the University of Seville offer the public the opportunity to learn about the production methods of some of the most common foods of high Imperial Roman gastronomy, such as wine, salted fish and garum.
The first edition of this Congress dedicated specifically to the history and culture of the world of food has the slogan “Spices, sailors and civilisation”, focusing on the theme of the V Centenary of the first round-the-world voyage, although not exclusively, as other aspects such as food in ancient Egypt and Rome will also be included.
The conference is part of the project “600 quintals: the historical weight of a voyage around the world” *, which aims to disseminate the historical context, and other aspects such as music, literature and food of an era coinciding with the voyage of exploration and discovery that Magellan and Elcano undertook. A voyage that changed the world forever and that, in a way, was the beginning of what we now call “globalisation”. Thus, the commemoration of the V Centenary is the recognition of a feat that facilitated the circulation and exchange of different foods, ideas and arts around the planet.
* 600 quintals” was the cargo of spices that the ship Victoria, the vessel that completed the first round-the-world voyage, transported to Seville at the end of its voyage (1522).
André Carneiro (University of Évora)
IX Lusitania International Round Table. Roman Lusitania: from past to present research.
Francisco Javier Sánchez-Palencia (Institute of History, CCHS of the CSIC).
IX Lusitania International Round Table. Roman Lusitania: from past to present research.
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