RT Book, Section
T1 Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Ancient Iberia: the Historical Sources.
A1 Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, Manuel
K1 Maremotos - Edad Antigua - Península Ibérica
K1 Península Ibérica - Historia - <....-0414, Edad antigua - Fuentes
AB According to recent Portuguese and Spanish seismic catalogues, a remarkable number of earthquakes and tsunamis were recorded in the Iberian Peninsula during Antiquity. They list earthquakes and tsunamis in 218–209 BC (Gulf of Cadiz); 60 BC (Galicia and Portugal); 365 AD (Southern Spain); and 382 AD (Cape St. Vincent, Portugal). In this chapter, the origin of these and other references to ancient earthquakes and tsunamis in the Iberian Peninsula is identified and their literary and historiographical contexts are analysed in order to assess their historicity. Most of this information is provided by two chroniclers: the Spanish historian Florián de Ocampo (ca. 1495–ca. 1558) and the Portuguese chronicler Bernardo de Brito (1569–1617). The historicity of most of the literature on ancient earthquakes and tsunamis in the Iberian Peninsula is very dubious, when not totally lacking credibility. However, sometimes, and especially in the case of Ocampo’s references to the ancient city of Cadiz, the information may reflect the collective memory of catastrophic events that occurred at a still undetermined moment in the past.
PB Springer
YR 2022
FD 2022-06-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28631
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28631
LA eng
NO Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, M. (2022): "Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Ancient Iberia: the Historical Sources", in Historical Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Singapore: 37-62.
NO Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/book-policies
NO Proyectos: ‘El tsunami en las representaciones culturales del mundo antiguo: Gadir-Gades y el Golfo de Cádiz como caso de estudio’ (HAR2015-66011 - MINECO/FEDER); Terremotos y tsunamis en la península ibérica en época antigua: respuestas sociales en la larga duración’ (PGC2018-093752-B-I00; MCI/AEI/FEDER, UE).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 25 ene 2026