Julia Balbilla travels with the empress Vibia Sabina
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Theme: The travels of Hadrian and Vibia Sabina across the Roman empire
Competencies
Competence in Linguistic Communication
Personal, social and learning to learn competence
Competence in cultural awareness and expressions
Subjects and year by Educational System
Spain > Classical culture > 3rd ESO > Classical roots of today's world. Geographical framework of Greece and Rome
Enunciation
Observations and context
Julia Balbilla, Damo and Caecilia Trebula in Greek and Dionysia in Latin had their short compositions engraved on the left leg of one of the Colossi of Memnon. These travelling poets of Roman times, along with others of very different styles such as Sulpicia the elegiac, Sulpicia the satirical, Herennia Procula, Claudia Trofime and Teosebia are heirs to the poetic tradition of Sappho that began in the 7th century BC and concludes in the 4th century AD with Aconia Fabia Paulina.
When her brother, Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappos, one of the first men of Oriental descent to become consul in Rome, died, Julia Balbilla built for him a funerary monument, the Philopappos, on the hill of the Muses, southwest of the Acropolis of Athens.
Description
Commentary on a poem by Julia Balbilla and locating on a map the places where Hadrian and Vibia Sabina stayed during their long journey, one of the stops of which was a visit to the Colossus of Memnon.