RT Journal Article
T1 Homeless Gods. Roman Polytheism in provincia Baetica during the Late Empire (III–IV CE)
A1 López Gómez, José Carlos
K1 Península Ibérica - Restos arqueológicos romanos
K1 Politeísmo
AB The conditions under which polytheistic ceremonies took place in Hispania duringthe late Roman period remain a mystery. The documentary silence is aggravated bythe virtual disappearance of religious epigraphy after the rule of the Severans andthe gradual abandonment of polytheistic sanctuaries. This abandonment took placeduring the third century, at a time when Christianity was a minority religion persecutedby the state. The causes of this collapse were the economic crisis and the developmentof a universalist ideology in an increasingly authoritarian empire that wouldultimately undermine the model of civic religion created by Augustus. The result wasthat the polytheistic reality of Baetica in the fourth century had changed significantlycompared to that of the second century. The construction of religious infrastructure,such as temples, was radically diminished, and cult activity was instead articulatedaround domestic and funerary spaces or places of collective worship still in use butlost to the archaeological record due to the lack of a physical continuity.
PB Mohr Siebeck
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38380
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38380
LA eng
NO “Homeless Gods. Roman Polytheism in provincia Baetica During the Late Empire (III–IV AD)”, Religion in the Roman Empire, 10.3, 335-359.
NO This contribution is a product of the synergy between two different projects, Roman-Islam – Centre for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), at Universität Hamburg, and La Tardoantigüedad líquida. Los límites de la acción individual en las opciones religiosas de Occidente (ss. III–VI d.C.) (P18-FR-1319), funded by the FEDER Program of Andalucía 2014–2020.La Tardoantigüedad líquida. Los límites de la acción individual en las opciones religiosas de Occidente (ss. III–VI d.C.) (P18-FR-1319)
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026