El Condensador del Fluzo TVE 2 "Esto me suena" Episodio “la Tabula Peutingeriana” VIDEAS
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"What have the Romans done for us?" is a famous line from the Monty Python movie "Life of Brian".
The joke is that, although it is said to imply that the Romans did not invent anything useful, it is followed by a list of things that we have actually inherited from them.
This lesson, which tells briefly about the only Roman roadmap that has survived to date, shows a couple of conjunctions that can be added at the beginning of a sentence to emphasize the idea we are expressing and refute any doubts, such as "que" and "pues".
Don't forget to show this video to your friends so you can practice together by discussing it.
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Well, look, the Roman Empire has bequeathed us a broad legal system, many monumental constructions, a multitude of literary works, but it has only left us a road map: the Tabula Peutingeriana.
It is named after a German humanist of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Conrad Peutinger.
The original map was sometime after the fourth century, since Constantinople appears on it, a city that was refounded by Constantine in the year three hundred and thirty.
Although only a few copies of the Tabula Peutingeriana have survived.
The oldest that has arrived to us is a roll thirty-four centimeters wide and six hundred and seventy-five centimeters long, almost seven meters, and covers from Iberia to India.
They went overboard with the horizontal scroll. This is because it was made on a papyrus roll that was transported in a cylindrical leather case.
The map was divided into twelve segments.
The first, which would have covered Hispania and part of the British Isles, disappeared, but could be pieced together in 1898.
More than a map, the Tabula Peutingeriana was actually an itinerary.
Something like the Michelin guide of Antiquity.
It did not attempt to represent the territory, but only the destinations and the distances that separated them.
In total, it represented more than one hundred and four thousand kilometers, hard not to miss an exit.
Important cities of the empire such as Rome, Constantinople and Antioch are highlighted.
And there are also ports, lighthouses, thermal baths, rivers or mountain ranges.
Although, surely, that map did not show something that every Roman knew.
Which is that, if there were a lot of cars in the parking lot, it was guaranteed you could eat well there.
¿Que qué han hecho los romanos por nosotros?
then mira, el Imperio romano nos ha legado un amplio ordenamiento jurídico, muchísimas construcciones monumentales, multitud de obras literarias, pero solo nos ha dejado un mapa de carreteras: la Tabula Peutingeriana.
Recibe el nombre de un humanista alemán de los siglos quince y dieciséis, Conrad Peutinger.
El mapa original fue realizado a partir del siglo cuatro, puesto que en él aparece Constantinopla, ciudad que fue refundada por Constantino en el año tres cientos treinta.
Aunque de la Tabula Peutingeriana solamente han sobrevivido algunas copias.
La más antigua que nos ha llegado es un rollo de treinta y cuatro centímetros de ancho y seiscientos setenta y cinco de largo, casi siete metros y abarca desde Iberia hasta la India.
Se les fue la mano con el scroll horizontal. Esto se debe a que se elaboró sobre un rollo de papiro que se transportaba en un estuche de cuero cilíndrico.
El mapa estaba dividido en doce segmentos.
El primero, que abarcaría Hispania y parte de las Islas Británicas, desapareció, pero pudo ser reconstruido en mil ochocientos noventa y ocho.
Más que un mapa, la Tabula Peutingeriana, en realidad, era un itinerario.
Algo así como la guía Michelín de la Antigüedad.
No intentaba representar el territorio, sino solo los destinos y las distancias que los separaban.
En total, representaba más de ciento cuatro mil kilómetros, como para no saltarse una salida.
Se stand out ciudades importantes del imperio como Roma, Constantinopla y Antioquía.
Y también aparecen puertos, faros, baños termales, ríos o cordilleras.
Aunque seguro que ese mapa no mostraba algo que todo romano conocía.
Y es que, si en el aparcamiento había muchos carros, seguro que allí se comía bien.
