Herakles as a Weapon of War: Religious Discourses and Local Responses in Ancient Iberia during the Second Punic War

digital

Articolo

Rivista

AEVUM

Fascicolo

AEVUM - 2021 - 1

Titolo

Herakles as a Weapon of War: Religious Discourses and Local Responses in Ancient Iberia during the Second Punic War

Autore

Jorge García Cardiel

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

Articolo |

Pdf

Online da

09-2021

Doi

10.26350/000193_000093

Issn

0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

€ 6,00

Ebook in formato Pdf leggibile su questi device:

Computer
con Software:
- Adobe PDF Reader
Android
iPhone/Ipad
con App:
- Adobe PDF Reader
E-Book Reader
Ibs Tolino
Kobo

Descrizione

This paper explores the religious discourses used in Hispania’s front lines during the Second Punic World and immediately afterwards, highlighting the significance of Herakles- Melkart as an ideological middle ground for Romans, Carthaginians and Iberian communities. We will pay attention to the ideological agendas of Romans and Carthaginians, both of whom resorted to gods in order to legitimise their political decisions. Besides, we will focus on the way Iberians reinterpreted those Carthaginian and Roman agendas, resorting to them as political negotiation tools both in times of war and in the construction of their political schemas and community identity during the troublesome 2nd B.C.