Javier Cabrero Piquero. Director of the Department of Ancient History. Lecturer. UNED.
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Pilar Fernández Uriel. Professor Emeritus of Ancient History. UNED.
UNED Summer Course. “Roma vivet: Inheritance and survival of Ancient Rome”.
Miguel Ángel Novillo López. Assistant Professor of the Department of Ancient History. UNED.
UNED Summer Course. “Roma vivet: Inheritance and survival of ancient Rome”.
Remedios Morán Martín. Professor of History of Law. UNED.
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There is no doubt that, in the history of humanity, women have played a leading role, ignored or despised, which we are gradually discovering and highlighting.
The Roman city of Regina is currently located in the vicinity of the municipality of Casas de Reina, a small town near Llerena, in the south of the province of Badajoz. In ancient times it was in the province of Baetica, attached to the conventus Cordubensis.
Neither the mining wealth of the area, nor its important strategic location, an important pass towards the Vegas del Guadiana, went unnoticed by the Romans. After the first skirmishes with the indigenous tribes and, above all, with the Lusitanian bands, the Romans erected a first settlement to control the territory at Cerro de las Nieves. With the pax Augusta, as happened in other towns, the high ground was abandoned and the city was built on the plain.
A city devoted to mining, it exercised administrative control over a large territory. As a result of this prosperous activity, in the time of Vespasian, it was granted the legal status of municipium.
The gestation of the Roman city from its foundation on a primitive Vascon settlement and its urban transformation over the centuries will be analysed.
The different historical events led to urban development impulses that have left a deep archaeological trace in the subsoil that allows us to identify the different stages of this city.
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.
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