On the occasion of the celebration of International Women's Day, the Roman Theatre Museum will host the traveling exhibition Women of Rome through Comic Art.
This is an exhibition that will take the audience the complexity and importance of a historical period in which women achieved a degree of emancipation hitherto unknown in ancient societies.
The exhibition will open on Friday, March 4, at 20:00 pm and will run until May 30.
This event will work the Roman Senate of our historical parties, especially a group of Roman women Bona Dea.
Visitors can immerse themselves in the hidden history of ancient Rome, the women of enormous capacity and influence, sometimes silenced by sources of the period.
The proposal seeks to exploit the potential of comics and graphic novel set in Roman times as a vegetable and educational tool that encourages reading and encourage critical analysis.
The exhibition also consists of a collection of comics and graphic novels, shown in exhibitors, which synthesizes concepts and cross - cutting themes, combining the different aesthetic of this unique art form, covering everything from the cartoons of the 70s to the most groundbreaking series of inspiration sleeve.
It is therefore to encourage the knowledge of Roman women, raise awareness of gender issues and claim the didactic potential of art Comi c, but also playfulness of a concise manner.
The illustrated interpretive panels give clues about the stories of traditional and contemporary comics, as Jugurtha, Murena, Alix, Las Águilas Romae Rome or Therma.
His exhibition has been possible thanks to the collaboration of publishers as NetCom2, Norma, Yermo Diábolo or Planet Agostini and Dargaud Benelux.
The exhibition is conceived within the project Rights of the European Citizenship.
Women and Citizenship, which has the support of a team of professors from different universities, specialists in Roman law, history, archeology or art.
The exhibition is curated by Professor Rosalia Rodríguez, Professor of Roman Law at the University of Almería, and Professor of Art History at the University of Murcia, Jaime Vizcaino, where he also collaborates URTI RvB Group, together with other institutions and agencies university.
Parallel has also been organized in the hall of the Museum a course on Women in Ancient Rome, the day 4 and 8 March.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena