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Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 8, the academic ceremony will take place in tribute to Professor Rosa María Iglesias Montiel, Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Murcia, who will deliver her last lesson: "Once again Ovid."

It will be at 12'15 in the Chamber of the Faculty of Letters of the UMU.

The event will be chaired by José Antonio López Pina, Vice-Rector for Teachers, and will feature the interventions of Pascual Cantos, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, José Carlos Miralles, director of the Department of Classical Philology, and Francisca Moya, retired Professor, who will The semblance of the teacher.

The author chosen for his last class is one of the most researched by her during the last 20 years, although he has not given many classes about him in recent times, an author who is passionate about his literary quality and his role as "great disseminator of myths. "

For the teacher, the work of Ovid is essential to understand us: "It is necessary the cultural knowledge of myths to explain the news."

The passion for Ovid has been demonstrated by Rosa María Iglesias in numerous publications and in many conferences on the scope of his work, such as those offered at various European universities in 2017, on the occasion of the death bimillenary of which he is considered one of the greatest poets of Classical Rome.

Iglesias has been with Consuelo Álvarez Morán- president of the SEEC (Spanish Society of Classical Studies), Section of Murcia, for 12 years.

Rosa Mª Iglesias first met the University of Murcia as a student, back in 1965, leaving for Madrid two years later to do the specialty.

In 1971 she returned to Murcia, already as a professor at a university much smaller than the current one: "The difference between that university and the current one is abysmal, almost like that between a college and a large university like the one we now have, that can compete with anyone inside Spain and abroad, "he says.

An evolution that is observed in every order of things, affirms: "in society in general, in the mentality of the people and in the university itself".

Tomorrow at noon will be his last class after almost half a century explaining his subject at the University of Murcia, and he has no doubt what his feeling will be during the minutes that last: "I will enjoy, as I have always done. I like it. much to teach. "

Source: Universidad de Murcia