Person: Espinosa Espinosa, David
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David
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Espinosa Espinosa
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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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Item a. d. viiii Kalendas Octobres, dies natalis Augusti. Some Considerations on the Astronomical Orientation of Roman Cologne and the Imperial Cult(Numen. International Review for the History of Religions, 2017) Espinosa Espinosa, David; González García, A. CésarA key factor in planning and orienting towns in the Roman world, and in particular in Augustan towns, was cosmology. The application of cosmological criteria in these towns, associated with specific political and religious principles of the principate of Augustus, has been already identified in Italia, Gallia, and Hispania. In this article we examine the orientation of the Roman town of Ara Ubiorum (present day Cologne) that could be related with the dies natalis Augusti. Based on these results, such a relation could have been deliberately sought by Roman and Ubian authorities to connect the newly founded town, where there was an ara of the Imperial cult probably consecrated to Rome and Augustus, with Augustus, who was identified with Apollo-Sol.Item Mors omnibus instat. Aspectos arqueológicos, epigráficos y rituales de la muerte en el Occidente romano(2011) Andreu Pintado, Javier; Pastor, Simone; Espinosa Espinosa, David; Andreu Pintado, Javier; Pastor, Simone; Espinosa Espinosa, DavidSi existe en el mundo romano una cuestión que pueda ser aprehendida por la investigación, tanto desde la perspectiva material de aquella como desde la ideológica, esa es el hecho funerario: la muerte. Los textos literarios, la documentación arqueológica de todo género, la evidencia numismática y, por supuesto, las inscripciones nos proporcionan un caudal documental extraordinario sobre uno de los fenómenos en los que más novedades se han aportado en los últimos años respecto de su incidencia en el Occidente Romano. Unas novedades que siempre han ido acompañadas, además, de singulares e inusitadas aproximaciones al asunto. El volumen Mors omnibus instat recoge contribuciones sobre la cuestión firmadas por una veintena de historiadores de la Antigüedad, arqueólogos y epigrafistas procedentes de más de una decena de centros de investigación y universidades de toda Europa. A partir de tres bloques –consagrados a la dimensión material (y, por tanto socio-económica), ideológica (esto es, espiritual) y textual (o celebrativa) del asunto funerario– la obra ofrece una excelente panorámica sobre el devenir del trabajo actual de la investigación dentro de las ciencias de la Antigüedad en torno al hecho funerario y una impagable prospectiva de los retos futuros que aún esperan a los estudiosos de la materia.Item From municipia Latina to oppida labentia. Bases for a Model of the Ideological and Institutional Causes behind the Latin Municipal System in Hispania(Signs of Weakness and Crisis in the Western Cities of the Roman Empire (c. II-III A.D.), 2019) Espinosa Espinosa, DavidItem Plinio y los 'oppida de antiguo Lacio'. El proceso de difusión del Latium en Hispania Citerior(2014) Espinosa Espinosa, DavidThis 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.Item Quattuorviratus and Latium in Hispania(Law and Power. Agents of Social and Spatial Transformation in the Roman West, 2023) Espinosa Espinosa, DavidThis 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).Item Pro consensu et concordia civium: Sensoriality, Imperial Cult, and Social Control in Augustan Urban Orientations(SENSORIVM. The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 2021) González García, A. César; García Quintela, Marco V.; Espinosa Espinosa, DavidOne of the most stunning visions that people in the Roman Empire looked at would have been the alignment of the sun with certain public structures of Roman towns in relevant moments of the religious calendar. Some of these moments would have been related to astronomical events such as solstices and equinoxes, which were connected with political and religious principles during the reign of Augustus. In this regard, the application of cosmological criteria in the orientation and planning of Roman towns has been identified in some case studies, such as Augusta Praetoria Salassorum in Italia, Carthago Nova in Hispania, Lugdunum in Gallia Lugdunensis, Augusta Treverorum in Gallia Belgica, and Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (previous Ara Ubiorum) in Germania Inferior. In all of them, the apparent movement of the sun across the sky along the year would have been chosen to mark (during the dawn or sunset) important public festivals linked to the human and agricultural cycles, as well as with several deities from the Roman pantheon. The intention behind this practice would have included commemorating specific public events that were deeply significant for the population, but also favoring prosperity and maintaining the political and religious cohesion of the communities. In order to achieve this purpose, the sensory perception and emotional experience would have played a decisive role. The fact, for example, that every 23rd of September and 21st of December (as is the case of Ara Ubiorum, Carthago Nova and Augusta Praetoria Salassorum) the first rays of sun aligned with the urban layout would have caused an extraordinary impact and theatrical effect in the consciousness of the people. Both dates and the psychological implications aroused, associated with the dies natalis Augusti and Capricorn (sign that chaired in Lugdunum the concilium of Tres Galliae every 1st August), would have been instrumentalized by Augustus for strengthening his position at the head of the Empire, as well as promoting the conservation of the new political order.Item 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, DavidThis 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.Item Reflexiones sobre la probable promoción de Cesse/Tarraco a colonia latina(Klio. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, 2016) Espinosa Espinosa, DavidEl propósito del presente trabajo es evidenciar la necesidad de atribuir a Cesse/Tarraco un estatuto jurídico-administrativo privilegiado con anterioridad a la fundación cesariana de Colonia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco con la finalidad de conciliar, de una forma satisfactoria, morfología urbana, protagonismo histórico y romanización cultural. A la luz de las recientes publicaciones sobre la probable existencia de un amplio programa de colonización latina en Hispania en época republicana, se dan a conocer los resultados iniciales de investigación sobre un primer análisis de los indicios disponibles sobre la probable promoción de Cesse/Tarraco a colonia latina.