El emperador y los ríos. Religión, ingeniería y política en el Imperio Romano

Desde que Escipión el Africano desembarcó en Ampurias en el año 218 a.C para combatir a los cartagineses hasta la caída del Imperio Romano occidental en 476 d.C., la península Ibérica estuvo ligada estrechamente a los destinos de Roma. Más de seiscientos años de historia compartida en los que Hispania se convirtió en uno de los ejes principales del Mediterráneo. Aníbal, los Escipiones, Viriato, Catón, Sertorio, Pompeyo, César, Augusto, Séneca, Trajano, Adriano o Teodosio son algunos de los personajes vinculados de una forma u otra con Hispania. Mientras que Mérida, Zaragoza,...

Roger Caillois examina en este libro las múltiples formas de manifestación y de creación de la imaginación mítica; en estas páginas están al mismo tiempo las habilidades del poeta y las destrezas del investigador riguroso.

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The volume is a collection of papers held at a conference devoted to the in-depth study of the history of the Roman-Iberian relationship against the backdrop of ecclesiastical and cultural structures of the Iberian Peninsula, which in many cases took on new forms in the course of the Reconquista and the consolidation of the country. The recently intensified focus on questions concerning the relationship between Rome as "center" and its European "peripheries" through research on Iberian papal documents opens up new perspectives.