Wake up Ferro in Tarraco Viva

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Like every year, we will be at the Tarraco Viva festival from May to , in the Campo de Marte in Tarragona. In addition to being able to find our collection of products at our stand, in line with the launch of our next book Amazonas , by Adrienne Mayor (on sale from May ), our colleague Alberto Pérez will give a conference on these mythical warriors of Antiquity . The talk Amazonwill be at the Roman Provincial-Praetorium Forum. Sarcophagus Room (Plaza del Rei s/n), on Saturday the th at : p.m., just after the conference Rome and Macedonia: two colossi facing each other, by Prof. Fernando Quesada (see the full program in Spanish ) The Amazons , those fierce women who lived in the confines of the known world, were in Greek myths warrior arch-enemies of heroes like Achilles or Hercules. But who really were those intrepid warriors who dedicated themselves to war, hunting and sexual freedom? Did they really exist or were they just an archetype of otherness in the Greek worldview? In Amazon. Wars of the Ancient World, Adrienne Mayor combines analysis of classical myths with Eurasian steppe traditions and archeology to reveal intimate and surprising details about the flesh-and-blood women the classical world would know as Amazons, to demonstrate that these warriors were not just the fruit of the Hellenic imagination.

A work that breaks stereotypes, alive today but also those of more than two millennia ago. The Dornishmen, unlike their neighbors on the other side of the Dornish Marches (a reference to the Hispanic March of the Carolingian Empire?), are frequently described in the books as preferring to fight on horseback using spears, thrown weapons (such as javelins and wear light armor that allows them to move with much greater B2B Email List agility and speed than their rivals from the Stormlands or the Rejo (although that does not mean that they also have heavy cavalry, although in smaller numbers). Likewise, they also differ from their northern neighbors in their combat tactics: the “tornafueye” this is the tactic of withdrawing and suddenly turning towards their pursuers to shoot them, organizing deadly ambushes taking advantage of their better knowledge of the terrain, the use of guerrilla warfare against an enemy by generally much superior in number, etc. In short, a whole series of tactics and strategies that have provided very good results to the Dornishmen throughout their long history, whether at the time of defending themselves from the incursions of their neighbors or even the Targaryen attempts at conquest, all of which ultimately ended in disaster. medina azahara al andalus dorne.



Caliphal reception in Medina Azahara, by Dionisio Baixeras (), romantic vision of al-Andalus that serves as a stereotype for the Dorne of Westeros. It is also good to remember that, if Dorne is seen with a mixture of strangeness and fascination by the rest of the seven kingdoms either because of its "curious customs" (sexual promiscuity, equal rights for men and women, etc.) or due to the ethnic variety of its inhabitants (compared to the simple differentiation between descendants of the first men and the Andals of the rest of Westeros), despite everything it continues to be part of the ecumene, that is, of the “world known” by the most of the people of Westeros. However, the same cannot be said of the lands and peoples beyond the Narrow Sea, of which the majority of the “ponientis” only know through hearsay and rumors that are interspersed with all kinds of legends. A true “World of Wonders” where princes, merchants, mercenaries and pirates rub shoulders with strange priests, “face-changing” assassins and sorcerers. And whose magnificent and several thousand-year-old cities are frequented by merchants and men of fortune or exiles (such as Prince Oberyn Martell, the “Red Viper”, the defenestrated knight Sir Jorah Mormont or the mercenaries.