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Room 2 Theater and Society

This room brings the visitor to the knowledge of the functions of the Theater in antiquity, as well as its role playful the theater is also an ideal element for the political and religious promotion of Augusto, personified in the Roman theater Cartagena by the two young princes, Cayo and Lucio, who also had to participate in funding and probably in the election of its ornamental form.

An ornamental form loaded with ideological messages among them the introduction of cults to the traditional deities of the roman state through three altars where they represent symbols of the Capitoline Triad, pieces wich dominates the middle of the room.

Other messages we can perceive with the contemplation of the sculpture of Apollo Citaredo, divinity venerated by Augustus after his victory at Actium, and the Rea Silvia relief which goes back to the origins of Rome, whose iconography was widely promoted by the emperor in its monumental architecture.

As in other Roman cities also participated in funding the most notable family members of the city, as the Lunia and Postumia. Contemplation of the altars and the inscriptions allow visitors to understand the keys of the patronage and political promotion in ancient times.