Remains of the past.
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Tema: Locating Roman remains in a map of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Enunciat
Viria Acte was born in Valencia Edetanorum, current Valencia, ca. 90 AD. She was an outstanding woman who, being a former slave, became a successful entrepreneur. She was the owner of a statue workshop that she run herself and that became very prestigious. She received many compliments and honours due to her work and her contributions to the city of Valencia.
She is not the only woman that we are aware of. Epigraphy has allowed us to know of many other women from the same period and others, what they did and where they were born or lived. They are spread throughout the Hispanic territory.
Here are the steps you must follow:
1- Your group has to choose -from the table below -as many women as your teachers tells you.
2- Research which archaeological remains can be found in the areas where those women lived or their surroundings (same province or region).
3- Place those remains on the map using their original name.
4- Create an index card following the example.
5- Prepare a presentation to show those remains to the rest of the class (it can be a Power Point presentation or similar, a mural, etc.).
Place the archaeological remains on the map.
TABLE
Some Latin toponyms
INDEX CARD
Choose at least one of the found Roman remain sites and create an index card with the following items:
NAME OF THE SITE (if it has one):
CURRENT PLACE:
WHAT IT WAS FOR:
WHAT ROMAN PROVINCE IT WAS IN:
PERIOD IT BELONGS TO:
DESCRIPTION (Add a picture):
Observacions i context
1- Observations
Viria Acte was a Hispano-Roman woman from the 2nd century AD born in Valentia, in Tarraconensis. There are many more women spread throughout the Hispanic territory that we are familiar with because of epigraphy.
We will group the students in couples or groups of three. Each group will choose, from the given table, a number of women -that the teacher will indicate-, so that the entire list is covered and will investigate which Roman remain sites can be found in each of their places of origin (including province or region) of the chosen women. They will place these remain sites on the map and they will create an index card about some of them. They can show their findings through a Power Point presentation or similar, a mural, etc.
This activity should be completed with other ones related to Viria acte, Other women with Viria and Viria's Hispania, which refer to the distribution in other territories of different women from the 2nd century. We know of these women and their origins because of epigraphy, and the distribution of Romance languages and archaeological remains in the Iberian Peninsula.
All of them are intended for Latin in 4th of ESO as an approximation to the geography and legacy of the Roman Hispania.
2- Context
One of the key factors which led to the greater independence of Roman women in the Imperial period was their ability to own and manage their own money.
The epigraphy of Roman Hispania in the 2nd century offers numerous examples of professions carried out by women who were also, in some cases, owners of their own businesses. To cite just a few names, we can find wet nurses (nutrices), such as Secundilla (Gades) or Clovatia Irena (Emerita Augusta); hairdressers (ornatrices), such as Philtates (Lucus Augusti, Lugo) or Turpa Thyce (Gades); menders (sarcinatrices), such as Latinia Da[.... ] (Corduba); professionals related to the production, dissemination and trade of olive oil, especially in Baetica, such as Accilia Felicissima, Caecilia Charitosa, Cornelia Placida or Caecilia Trophime, among many others; owners of land in production, such as C. Plancia Romana (Fiñana, Almería) or Aurelia Iuventiana (Arauzo de Torre, Burgos); owners of artisan workshops of all kinds _from gilding, textile and footwear workshops to the manufacture of marble pieces, like our Viria Acte _, such as Aurelia Vivia Sabina (domina fabricae marmorariae) (Terena, Portugal), Cornelia Cruseidis (domina inauratoris) (Tarraco) or Valeria Severina, who was also patroness of the guild, (domina fabricae textilis et calceamenti) (Segisama Iulia, Burgos) to women who practised medicine and obstetrics, such as the Hispanic Julia Saturnina (Emerita Augusta) or later women, such as those belonging to other times and places, Primila, Empiria and Venuleya Sosis, qualified as medici; Salustia Ateneis, obstetrix; Naevia Clara, medicaphilologa or Aurelia Alexandra Zozima, cited ‘for her medical knowledge’.
We also find other professions: caementarius (bricklayer): Iulia (Conimbriga, Coimbra); purpuraria (manufacture of purple): Baebia Veneria (Gades); lintearia (weaver or linen merchant): Fulvia (Tarraco); pictor or pistor (painter or baker): Caecilia M [...] (Maresme, Barcino), etc.
Descripció
In this activity, we intend to match Viria Acte and other women from the 2nd century to their places of origin and to investigate which traces of the Roman can still be found in them. This will give us a general vision of the Roman heritage and will help us understand its relevance.
Placing on the map the archaeological remains from Roman Hispania.