The professor of Latin Philology at the University of Murcia, Francisca Moya, gave an interesting lecture on Tuesday at the Archaeological Museum in the cycle Tuesdays Museum, which will be dedicated on 27 women in late antiquity
Professor Francisca Moya, Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Murcia, offered on Tuesday in the Municipal Archaeological Museum Enrique Escudero de Castro, an interesting lecture about the beauty in ancient Rome, entitled De venustate.
On female beauty.
This is the second of the lectures included in the cycle Tuesdays Museum: The wit in the service of beauty.
The image of women through time.
The speech of Professor Moya, supported by texts of Ovid, Juvenal, Seneca and other Latin authors and images of paintings and sculptures of the time, explained in an entertaining and rigorously conceived how feminine beauty, grace, personal adornment , clothing, shoes, makeup, jewelry and all the tricks that helped to enhance the beauty.
The next conference of this cycle, Tuesday March 27, will be on Ornamenta mullebria.
Women and beauty in late antiquity, by Jaime Sanchez Vizcaino, Ph.D. in Archaeology.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena