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"I know my heritage, are you?", Is an event designed by the Association of Professors of Latin and Greek (AMUPROLAG) and the Spanish Society of Classical Studies (SEEC), section of Murcia, to claim a place for Classical Culture, Greek and Humanities in LOMCE.

It is, according to organizers, "the same day that we all do with our students a combined reading of selected texts emblematic of our Greek and Latin classics."

The date chosen was significant, 12 of 12 in 2012.

At 12 hours, more than two hundred students and teachers gathered in the Humanities Conference Hall of the Faculty of Arts at the gates of it to claim the importance of teaching classical languages.

The ceremony kicked off this morning with a representation on the campus of La Merced, Tragicometa by the group.

The opening was performed by Concepcion Palacios Bernal, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Murcia, and next to it have been Faustino Cava, Dean of the Law School, José María Jiménez Cano, Dean of the Faculty of Arts; Carmen Guzman Arias, Director of the Department of Classical Philology, Noguer M ª Teresa Beltran, President of the SEEC and Amorós Aurora Fernandez, a student of the Master Teacher Training.

Then there have been several readings in the House accompanied by the showing of support and a performance by the choir Ars Musica.

Diana de Paco, Department of Classical Philology at the University of Murcia, promoters of the event, said that this initiative "We are a party, a celebration of culture, a celebration of literature and a party of truth. With culture seeks the truth, and trying to remember our origins will discover what we are. "

To add to this, it has been seen in the facade of the Faculty of Arts, an exhibition of posters produced by secondary school students from various institutes of Murcia.

The event involved many members of the public, including writer Soren Peñalver, who read a poem written by one of his stays in Greeces.

For his part, Professor Mariano de Paco said his hope that this is a "Superb day that the humanities and classical languages ​​enlighten us, enlighten ignorant both want to end up with them."

Source: UMU