December 6, 2018, 7:30pm
Faculty Room 207, Low Library
2,150 years ago, the world experienced an incredible event. For 20 years, a small village in the Hispania Plateau resisted the most powerful army in the world. Classical authors paid homage to this remarkable feat as a comprehensive historical symbol, legend, and factual myth. Numancia perished in defense of freedom, dignity, honor, sacrifice, solidarity, unity, independence, nobility, and peace. Together with Rome, that gifted the law, cities, citizenship, urban infrastructure, language, and religion, with Greco-Roman and Christian culture, Numancia marks the origin of the history of human rights and democracy. Numancia is a hidden treasure reflecting the paradigm of liberty and universal human freedom that lie at the heart of our moral heritage understood as the best definition culture and what we now refer to as the “Fourth Pillar;” the cornerstone upon which to build an intelligent, sustainable world for the universal benefit of present and future generations.
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