Carmen Castillo García

Carmen Castillo García (born May 4, 1932) is a Spanish Professor Emeritus of Classical Philology at the University of Navarra in Pamplona. She is the second woman to obtain a Latin Philology Chair in Spain. She is an expert on the Roman province of Baetica in southern Iberia.

Life García was born in Granada. During those years, she replaced Professor Sanmartí.

In 1965 she defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Madrid. In the same year she published her book that deals with the collective biographies of the people of Southern Iberia at the time of the Roman empire. In 1975 she published her book on the towns of settlements the Roman province of Baetica in southern Iberia.

Teaching

Professor Castillo participated in three summer courses organized by the Menendez Pelayo International University in Santander, directed by Manuel Fernández-Galiano; a summer course at El Escorial, organized by the Complutense University of Madrid, directed by Antonio Fontán. And finally, she attended a summer course, in Cartagena, organized by the University of Murcia, under the direction of Francisca Moya. She helped with the development of the Epigraphy course at the University of Bologna.

Scientific interest

Her lines of research focus on two broad areas. On the one hand, Latin literature, with special attention to Classical Prose, (Cicero and Livio); the Comedy (Plautus); the translation and editing of texts. On the other, Roman History, in which Epigraphy and Prosopography Städte und Personen der Baetica, 1975