Roman Army
an agent of Cultural Entanglement
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36661/2238-9717.2022n40.12940Keywords:
Roman Army, Cultural Entanglement, Plural Female DeitiesAbstract
In a very brief study of the epigraphic dedications to the plural female deities of four western provinces of the Roman Empire (Germania Inferior, Baetica, Gaul Lugdunense and Britannia), we concluded that the local populations did not remain passive in the occupation of their territories, but they adopted, rejected and resignified elements of religiosity that came to them from outside, while also maintaining preexisting elements and practices. This study is part of the current researches on the Roman Empire, which demonstrate the impossibility of understanding it as a homogeneous system, in which the romans, understood as a cohesive and indistinct group, used their war power to subjugate populations that were equally homogeneous and not very complex. On the contrary, we verified the great ethnic and cultural heterogeneity of the members of the Army which, allied to the cultural variability present in the provinces, made possible the dissemination of romanized and regional practices, as well as the creation of new entangled practices.
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