El traslado de las divinidades a través de las cohors voluntariorum civium Romanorum de época imperial: The transfer of Divinities through the cohors voluntariorum civium Romanorum in the Imperial Period

Studies on migration in ancient Rome reveal social, political and cultural panoramas in favour of Roman mobility. Despite cultural evolution, some elements, especially in the religious sphere, endured. We focus on divinities relocated by mobilizing agents, emphasizing the role of Roman military unit...

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Autor principal: Almansa Fernández, Marco
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/16563
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Sumario:Studies on migration in ancient Rome reveal social, political and cultural panoramas in favour of Roman mobility. Despite cultural evolution, some elements, especially in the religious sphere, endured. We focus on divinities relocated by mobilizing agents, emphasizing the role of Roman military units. Specifically, we analyse cohorts of Roman citizen volunteers (cohors voluntariorum civium Romanorum), an aspect scarcely covered by current historiography. This study demonstrates how these citizens, enlisted in auxiliary units, disseminated divinities to territories distant from their origin. We identify approximately seventeen units with these characteristics, originating from Pannonia, Syria, Germania, Numidia, Moesia, Raetia, and Cappadocia. Our objective is to examine the relocation and cult of divinities across the Mediterranean by these units during the imperial era and to employ Social Network Analysis (SNA) as a method to study this phenomenon of divinity transfer or diffusion.