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O culto imperial feminino : um estudo prosopográfico das flaminicae e sacerdotes na Hispânia

Publication . Cunha, Inês Bicudo Castelo Branco; Guerra, Amílcar Manuel Ribeiro

In this dissertation, I will focus on the female imperial cult because it is the Roman female cult with the largest number of epigraphic records, demonstrating the fundamental religious role of women in Roman society, in the evolution and subsistence of Roman urban centers outside the capital. For this reason, it was one of the only contexts in which Roman women could stand out socially. Furthermore, due to the vastness of the Roman Empire, I will focus on the region of Hispania due to the geographical connection of my research with the Iberian Peninsula. When we think of women in the Roman Empire, we have the stereotypical view that women had little to no participation in Roman society, and that their contribution was restricted to the domestic context as wives, housewives and mothers. However, this view is reductive because there were exceptions to the norm, namely the imperial flaminicae or sacerdotes. These were priestesses appointed or elected individually by a province, conventus or city within the Roman Empire, with the exception of the capital, to worship certain deities or deified imperial figures. Thus, I will contextualize the origins of the priestesses of the imperial cult, comment some parallels that are still established between the imperial flaminicae and the flaminica Dialis. I will also define this priesthood by explaining the various administrative and honorary titles, the requirements to join, as well as the dress, the duties, the benefits and the importance of these priestesses at a socioeconomic, personal and family level in local, “conventual” and provincial communities. All of this will be accomplished through a prosopographic study, which attempts to reconstruct the lives of the priestesses of the imperial cult.

2025-01-20Master thesis

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Pensare o farne a meno?: la scelta tra certezza e libertà

Publication . Fernandes, Maria

Alla luce di Il Nome della Rosa di Umberto Eco, si discorre sull'atto di pensare e sull'inquietudine che esso può implicare. Si pesano le ipotesi inerenti a tale esercizio, con i costi e conseguenze che ne possono derivare per la nostra coscienza e benessere, e le scelte che ci si presentano.

2023Journal article

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