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Espinosa Espinosa, David

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David
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Espinosa Espinosa
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/86380
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Geografía e Historia
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Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología
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Historia Antigua
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    Back to basics: a non-photorealistic rendering method for the analysis of texts from 3D Roman inscriptions
    (Antiquity, 2018) Carrero Pazos, Miguel; Espinosa Espinosa, David
    This paper presents the results of a non-photorealistic rendering approach to analysing Roman inscriptions, which uses line drawings to highlight the text of two epigraphs from Galicia in north-west Spain.
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    Small Latin Towns. Origen y perfil constitucional de un nuevo modelo urbano provincial creado por Augusto en Hispania
    (Small Towns. Una realidad urbana en la Hispania romana, 2022) Espinosa Espinosa, David; Espinosa Espinosa, David
    En la historia institucional de Hispania se distinguen tres horizontes de latinización jurídica desarrollados por Roma durante la República, el periodo augústeo y la época flavia. Este trabajo, a través de un análisis de la evidencia documental conservada, centra la atención en los dos primeros de ellos, con el objetivo de exponer el origen y perfil constitucional del municipium Latinum, un nuevo modelo urbano provincial de small town (entendida en un sentido material) creado por Augusto en la Península Ibérica.
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    On the Orientation of Two Roman Towns in the Rhine Area
    (Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 2016) Espinosa Espinosa, David; González García, A. César; García Quintela, Marco V.
    The aim of the present paper is to extend the archeoastronomical study sample on the orientation of Roman cities to the analysis of a number of cases in the Rhine area. The starting point is a study of the orientation of Augusta Treverorum (present day Trier; Goethert, 2003). Goethert assumed that the orientation of the decuma- nus maximus was towards sunrise at the autumn equinox, on September 23 rd as the dies natalis of the city. This event would deliberately coincide with the anniversary of the birth of Augustus, and would have de- termined the establishment and orientation of the new urban layout. However, our in situ measurements of the orientation of the urban network at several sites of the Roman town rule out this hypothesis. We find an orientation that is more in line with those documented for other Roman cities and camps elsewhere in the Roman provinces (González-García et al., 2014; Rodríguez-Antón et al., 2016). Moreover, measurements made in the Lenus Mars temple indicate a recurrent phenomenon of cultural hybridization. Here the temple, located outside the city walls on the west bank of the river Moselle, combines a possibly Celtic orientation with Roman symbolic beliefs. In reality, the alleged orientation towards the dies natalis of Augustus is veri- fied for Cologne. There are a number of circumstances that make this choice logical for a city that was initial- ly planned as the capital of the Augustan province of Germania and the seat of an ara of imperial worship.
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    Quattuorviratus and Latium in Hispania
    (Law and Power. Agents of Social and Spatial Transformation in the Roman West, 2023) Espinosa Espinosa, David
    This work aims to propose a coherent interpretation for the presence of the quattuorviratus in the historical evidence belonging to a group of coloniae and municipia from Hispania, both in Republican and Imperial times. To this end, the historiographical views regarding the legal and administrative meaning of the quattuorviratus in the Hispanian provinces are assessed. Also, the literary, epigraphic, and numismatic references to the quattuorviratus coming from such coloniae and municipia are examined. Finally, as a novelty, the existence of a group of Latin colonies in Hispania during the Republic is considered. The result is a new proposal that explains the origin and presence of the quattuorviratus in the Hispanian provinces because of its establishment in some of these Latin colonies following Caesar’s praetorship in Hispania Ulterior (61–60 BC) and the bellum Civile (49–45 BC).
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    Plinio y los 'oppida de antiguo Lacio'. El proceso de difusión del Latium en Hispania Citerior
    (2014) Espinosa Espinosa, David
    This volume is the result of five years of research about the juridical Latinization policy developed by Rome in the West, focusing on the integration -under the protection of the Latinitas- of a set of Hispanian communities, promoted -in the Republican era- to colonial status and -during the Roman Empire- to the municipal. This research aims to raise the plausibility, from the existence in Augustan age of fifty 'oppida of ancient Latium', and many literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidences scattered in the preserved documentation, that Rome had introduced in Hispania a Latin colonization policy similar to the one established in Italy and Gallia Cisalpina, amended in constitutional aspects but similar in their goals and results. The author posits that this fact would explain a set of historical phenomena and behaviours related to the existence of privileged communities in the field: that is, the involvement of the Iberian provinces in the Roman military and political conflicts, the force of military recruitment, the intensity of the italic migration flow, the socioeconomic integration of Hispanian communities in the western Mediterranean trade routes, and the widespread dissemination of the institutions, forms and cultural goods of the Romano-italic koiné. Therefore, this volume is intended to enrich and encourage the present historiographic debate, and setting the guidelines of what might have been the Latinization process in Hispania Citerior in the Republican era.
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    El ius Latii y la integración jurídica de Occidente. Latinización vs. romanización
    (Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2009) Espinosa Espinosa, David
    En base a los problemas de interpretación histórica que generan las comunidades de derecho latino, y apoyados en el análisis onomástico de la población residente en dichas comunidades, proponemos la idoneidad del empleo del término latinización, frente al tradicional concepto de romanización, para referirnos al proceso de integración jurídica de las poblaciones indígenas de Occidente en época romana.
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    Project number: Proyecto Innova 109
    La divulgación en la enseñanza de la Historia Antigua: una propuesta metodológica de aprendizaje basado en problemas
    (2023) Mayorgas Rodríguez, Ana; Echeverría Rey, Fernando; García Fernández, Estela Beatriz; Hernando Sobrino, María del Rosario; Espinosa Espinosa, David; Barroso Romero, Rafael Antonio
    El objetivo principal del proyecto era enfrentar a los alumnos con la tarea de reflexionar sobre la divulgación como parte importante de la formación que ha de adquirir un historiador y que puede poner en práctica profesionalmente en el ámbito laboral. El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías audiovisuales ha abierto un número importante de posibilidades para la divulgación en Humanidades en general y en Historia y Arqueología en particular. Esta divulgación puede ser creada por una variedad de especialistas, pero es evidente que aquella que quiera alcanzar más complejidad requiere la formación de los historiadores y arqueólogos para que sea rigurosa y esté actualizada. Con este objetivo en mente, el proyecto se centró en programar las prácticas de distintas asignaturas del Grado en Historia, del Doble Grado en Historia y Filología Clásica y del Grado en Arqueología impartidas en la Facultad de Geografía e Historia durante el curso académico 2022-23.
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    Epigraphy in the Digital Age. Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions
    (2021) Velázquez Soriano, María Isabel; Espinosa Espinosa, David; Velázquez Soriano, María Isabel; Espinosa Espinosa, David
    This volume presents epigraphic research using digital and computational tools, comparing the outcomes of both well-established and newer projects to consider the most innovative investigative trends. Papers consider open-access databases, SfM Photogrammetry and Digital Image Modelling applied to textual restoration, Linked Open Data, and more.
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    Plinio y los "Oppida de antiguo Lacio" : el proceso de difusión del "Latium" en "Hispania Citerior"
    (2013) Espinosa Espinosa, David; García Fernández, Estela
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    Urban Planning and Ritual Action in Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten, Germany): Understanding a Non- Solar Orientation Pattern
    (Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 2018) Espinosa Espinosa, David; González García, A. César; García Quintela, Marco V.
    There is increasing evidence to suggest that cosmological factors were applied in the planning and orientation of Roman towns, at least under Augustus. Among others, this is the case of Colonia Augusta Praetoria Salassorum (Aosta) in Italia, Colonia Urbs Iulia Nova Carthago (Cartagena) in Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis, Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum (formerly Colonia Copia Felix Munatia, Lyon) in Gallia Lugdunensis, Colonia Augusta Treverorum (Trier) in Gallia Belgica, and Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (formerly Ara Ubiorum, Cologne) in Germania Inferior. For the sake of strengthening the sample of cities studied, and identifying orientation patterns from a chronological and astronomical perspective, a number of public structures from Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten) in Germania Inferior were measured. This town was a Roman colony, founded in A.D. 98 by Trajan with a contingent of veteran soldiers and a group of Germanic people. The result was the establishment of a typical Roman settlement with an orthogonal urban grid, whose planning and orientation took cosmological factors into account. In this case, in contrast to the previous examples, we propose that the decumanus maximus was not oriented directly according to the solar arc, but that instead it was possibly linked with other celestial bodies. In addition, the Gallo-Roman temple supposedly dedicated in this town to the Matronae or the Matres was oriented according to the major lunar standstill (“lunistice”). Therefore, this study aims to present the first results regarding the urban orientation of Colonia Ulpia Traiana according to a non-solar pattern, and attemps to provide a preliminary explanation for it from a cultural perspective.