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Rex Iuba, monarca e intelectual helenístico, y la Hispania de Augusto

2017; Complutense University of Madrid; Volume: 35; Issue: Esp. Linguagem: Inglês

10.5209/geri.56138

1988-3080

Adolfo J. Domínguez Monedero,

Archaeological and Historical Studies

King Juba II, placed in the throne of the client-kingdom of Mauretania by Augustus, appears closely related to the Roman Hispania, especially to the cities of Gades and Carthago Nova. In addition to the reasons adduced by the scholarship for this relationship, this article explores other possibilities which have largely to do with the activity of the king as a researcher and scholar and the development of a major political ideology, always within the legal Roman framework, aimed to highlight the many legacies that the king concentrates in his person and in his family (Punic, Numidian, Hellenistic). The two cities of Hispania in which the king is honoured and where he exerts his evergetism should be studied in conjunction with other places outside his kingdom where his interests are also attested, namely the Atlantic territories and one of the cultural centres of the ancient world, Athens.