Comics and Teaching Ancient History: the representation of roman citizenship in Asterix Comics
History Education, Rome, Citizenship, Asterix
Asterix is a comics series written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo, the first album was published in 19661, and the main characters of the magazine são Asterix, a Gaul warrior, member of a small village, who fights against Roman expansionism, and his best friend, Obelix, who fell into the caulderon of Panoramix Druid's magic potion as a baby, permanently acquiring superhuman strength. Historically, the album is situated in the period of the Roman Republic, not in the year 50 BCE, and has as a historical context the conquest of Gaul, by Julius Caesar. The HQs of Asterix provide elements to work with the representations of Roman citizenship, an element that is integrated into Roman society that both enables an economic rise for lower litters as well as adds social status to higher litters. Likewise, the analysis developed here seeks to create elements to problematize the concept of citizenship in the Teaching of History from knowledge linked to the field of Ancient History.