Pedro Lopez Barja de Quiroga

• University of Santiago de Compostela

The conventional historiographical narrative argued so convincingly in favour of the complete subordination of freedmen to their patrons that no other interpretation seemed necessary. Historians have closely studied the status of a freedman who remained linked to their patron, but have neglected the role of former slaves as members of the Roman com...

La concesión de la ciudadanía romana por el emperador tenía que responder a estrictos criterios de justicia, para evitar ser considerada un acto arbitrario, y por lo tanto tiránico. En este caso, la justicia dictaba que el fin de este favor imperial sólo podía ser el de incrementar el número de ciudadanos, lo que en sí mismo era un acto de evergeti...

The irrelevance of ideology is perhaps one of the most strongly held views shared by the historians of the Late Republic. As indicated by Matthias Gelzer in 1912, in those final years of the Roman Republic, ‘political struggles were fought out by the nobiles at the head of their dependents’. In his opinion, this was nothing more than a power strugg...

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Aquí se compilan todas las referencias que tenemos a Latinos Junianos, en las fuentes literarias, identificados por su nombre, tanto las que son seguras como las menos probables, en el periodo entre Augusto y la dinastía de los Severos. También se lleva a cabo un análisis de los documentos relativos a Venidius Ennychus (Herculano) y, en particular,...

Masked revelry, the quaffing of large amounts of wine and the sound of flutes … this cavalcade would pass through the streets of Rome every 13th June, even crossing the forum itself. As we will show later on, a connection can be established between this celebration (the Quinquatrus minusculae ) and the statue of Marsyas, the acolyte of Dionysus, wh...

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Dada la intimidad en que a menudo vivían los esclavos y sus dueños, la amenaza servil estaba siempre latente y podía ser letal. Para mantener a los esclavos bajo control y conseguir que hicieran su trabajo, los historiadores creen que se estableció un doble sistema de premios y castigos –la zanahoria y el palo– en el que la esperanza de la manumisi...

Given the fact that Victor Davis Hanson has a habit of making his views on almost everything public, it is not difficult to fit them into a neoconservative ideology. His remarks about ex-President Bush, the Iraq war or the threat of Mexican immigration to the identity of the United States leave no margin for doubt on this point. What we want to do...

A través del tiempo, por influencia de los diferentes poderes que se desarrollaron a su alrededor, Gre-cia se fue transformando, configurándose así una imagen de Grecia como salvadora de la civilización frente al bárbaro imperio persa, insignia de la democracia, símbolo de la cultura y del renacer de las artes, y portadora del pensamiento científic...

Se establecen una serie de reflexiones sobre el proceso romanizador en Galicia, entendido éste como un fenómeno de interacción cultural entre unos pueblos indígenas heterogéneos y una identidad romana asimismo múltiple y diversa. Partimos del estudio de la estela de Crecente, monumento epigráfico que, por su excepcional carácter, ilustra a la perfe...

Tres son las ideas principales: que prouincia Transduriana es una denominación perfectamente válida para una provincia romana; que se trataba de una provincia como cualquier otra, no de una subprovincia ni de una misión militar, pues en derecho romano la jurisdicción delegada no puede delegarse a su vez y, por último, que al restituir, Augusto leva...

The strange rite practiced the day of the Cerialia in Rome, which consisted in foxes being released with torches tied to their backs, can find explanation if we associate it with a myth, that of the fox, the eagle and the wolf, happened during the foundation of Lavinio. Ceres, as a divinity particularly associated with the foundation of cities, fin...

My first intention when the compositive problems of the lex Ursonensis were posed as a subject of study was to look for an order, an internal logic, that would make sense of the succession of chapters in the law. On secod thought, however, I hoped to verify wherther the thematic succession thus determined could have had parallels in literary, legis...

In this paper, I try to define the status of the dues Latini, that is, the inhabitants of those municipio which have been granted the ius Latii. Three passages from the Pauli Sententiae dealing with them are discussed and Fear's arguments, based upon chapter 72 of the lex Irnitana, and implying that the public slaves manumitted by any latin municip...

En un conocido libro ?. M. Staerman y M. ?. Trofimova concluyen su brevísima exposición sobre los Latini luniani (apenas dos páginas), afirmando: «Desgraciadamente ni las fuentes literarias ni los epígrafes nos proveen de noticias suplementarias sobre los libertos de esta categoría y nosotros no estamos en situación de conocer en qué casos el propi...

The paper of P. López Barja is also based on a global project mainly based on literary envidence: Testimonia Antiqua Hispaniae. The new criteria established to the edition of these documents gives way to pinpoint the factors determining the mental image of the space that appear in these documents. He focusses particularly on the geographical repres...

In the mirror game which Apuleius� novel is, where nothing really is what it seems to be, the protection offered by the law to all men turns out to be false. Violence on slaves is a case in point. Their condition is described with an unexpected sense of reality. Slaves cannot hope of being manumitted nor protected by the law. Their fate is a punish...

Je développe trois idées fondamentales. Tout d'abord, je soutiens que les juristes romains ont justifié les charges qui pesaient sur les affranchis en présentant l'affranchissement surtout comme un "beneficium", c'est-à-dire comme quelque chose qu'on devait concéder librement. D'autre part, cette conception de l'affranchissement explique la manière...