Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
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description: Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua (ISSN 0213-0181, ISSN-e 1988-3080) was founded in 1983. Originally issued on an annual basis, since 2017 the journal edits two issues every year. It covers topics connected to the Ancient World, particularly from the point of view of Ancient History, but contributions from complementary disciplines such as Epigraphy, Archaeology or Philology are also welcome, as long as they present a historical approach.
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publication name: Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
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items: An Imperial Slave and a Freedman (not) from Livorno: Notes on an Almost Recovered Fragment and on the tabularius sacrarum pecuniarum provinciae Cretae
items: "Coniurationes matris et filiae": An Analysis of the Intrigues Attributed to Faustina the Younger and Lucilla
items: The Military sacramentum in the Epistulae of Pliny the Younger: Analysis and Interpretation
items: The Greek City and its Games: Notes on the Olympic Boule and the Actian Boule in the Roman Imperial Period
items: El conjunto monumental de Cercadilla (Córdoba) : posible sede del vicarius de la Dioecesis Hispaniarum y posterior centro cristiano de culto martirial.
items: The Commentariolum petitionis by Quintus Cicero and the adulescentes nobiles: the barbatuli iuvenes. On the "Intergenerational Conflict" in the Late Republic
items: Lusitanian Banditry in the Context of Migratory Movements from Northwest Hispania towards the Tagus Valley
items: Sobre el origen del poblamiento de Canarias
items: Hadrian, Pater Patriae, and the cohors I Ulpia Dacorum. A New Fragment of a Military Diploma from AD 128
items: Governing the emergency: political organisation and social cohesion in a city under siege in Philo of Byzantium’s Μηχανικὴ Σύνταξις
items: A New Epigraphic Find from Lucena (Cordoba): The Epitaph of Deutera
items: Libros recibidos en 2025
items: Michele Renee Salzman, Las caídas de Roma. Crisis, resiliencia y resurgimiento en la Antigüedad tardía, Madrid, Editorial Gredos, 2025, 576 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-2499-890-5]
items: Marta Szada, Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 360 pp. [ISBN: 978-1-009-42644-2]
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108395
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108394
items: Stephen Dando-Collins, César contra Pompeyo: El mejor general, estadista y constructor nacional de Roma, Córdoba, Erasmus, 2025, 304 pp. [ISBN 978-8410199453]
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108392
items: Laura Sancho Rocher – Manel García Sánchez (eds.), Democracia, ley e instituciones (Antiguas y Modernas), Madrid, Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2024, 381 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-19782-94-6]
items: Juan Pablo Ramis, Conflicto interno y concordia en el pensamiento político de Isócrates, Ciudad de Mendoza, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-Edifil, 2025, 306 páginas [ISBN: 978-950-774-441-9]
items: Katia Margariti, Dogs in Athenian Sculpture and vase painting of the Archaic and Classical periods, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2025, 401 pp. [ISBN: 978-1-80327-997-8]
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108387
items: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108386
items: Francesco Prontera, Al di qua delle Colonne d’Ercole. Scoperta e rappresentazioni del Mediterraneo, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2025, 266 pp. [ISBN 978-88-222-6946-1]
items: Marco Ramazzotti. Archeologia, arte e paesaggio tra Asia occidentale e Mediterraneo orientale, ca. 4500-323 a.C., Milano, Mondadori Università, 2025, 522 pp., LI mapas [ISBN: 979-12-2060-007-1]
items: Dina Serova – Uros Matić (eds.), Bodies that Mattered. Ancient Egyptian Corporealities, Sidestone Press, 2025, 254 pp. [ISBN: 978-94-6427-129-4]
items: A Fluvial Treaty, a Historiographical Delta: Carthage, Rome, the Ebro and the Others. Introductory Study
items: From Temple to Church: A New Methodological Reassessment of the Study of the Religious Landscape in Late Antique Egypt
items: C. Mucius’ Missing Hand: The Manipulation of a Foundational Roman Legend in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
items: Linguistic Analysis and Appeal Procedure at the Council of Nicaea (325): A Unitary Study about the Documentary Controversy Happened in the First Ecumenical Council and the Homoousios Debate

An Imperial Slave and a Freedman (not) from Livorno: Notes on an Almost Recovered Fragment and on the tabularius sacrarum pecuniarum provinciae Cretae
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description: In an article that appeared in the Florentine newspaper “La Nazione” in 1883, an epigraphic fragment and an inscription were described. Both documents are now lost, but at the time they were preserved in Livorno, where they may have arrived due to antiquarian collecting. For the fragment, it seems possible to identify a publication of a scientific nature a few decades later, but in a different form from that of the first mention. The second document instead, a funerary inscription commissioned by an imperial freedman for his alumnus, constitutes the only attestation of a tabularius sacrarum pecuniarum provinciae Cretae. The analysis of the use of the locution sacrae pecuniae in other epigraphic sources and in the Cretan context leads us to believe that this office, long related to the administration of imperial property on the Aegean island, is instead to be considered as a specificity of that province, where the use by the imperial authority of funds belonging to temples or sanctuaries for the realisation of works of public utility is attested.
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creator: Davide Trivellato
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 95
ending page: 113
doi: 10.5209/geri.103071

"Coniurationes matris et filiae": An Analysis of the Intrigues Attributed to Faustina the Younger and Lucilla
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description: This article analyses three political conspiracies led by the Augustae Faustina the Younger and Lucilla. The plots, independently undertaken by mother and daughter, took place at different moments between the years 169 and 182, and were directed against the emperors and their relatives Lucius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. To this end, the study is structured around the accounts of classical authors who recount these episodes, as well as the main contemporary research that examines them. Thus, the introductory section sets out both the foundations and the main conspirational motives of imperial women during the Principate, as well as a critical methodological approach to biases of Roman historiography regarding female participation in political machinations. Likewise, throughout the article, an effort is made to determine whether their alleged involvement corresponds to contexts and intentions considered plausible by the academic community or whether, on the contrary, there are doubts about their veracity. Be that as it may, authors such as Cassius Dio, Herodian, and the biographer of the Historia Augusta employ, regarding mother and daughter, certain literary commonplaces embedded in the perpetuation of a biased and hegemonic discourse on female conduct deemed extra mores within the political sphere.
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creator: Daniel León Ardoy
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 115
ending page: 137
doi: 10.5209/geri.104126

The Military sacramentum in the Epistulae of Pliny the Younger: Analysis and Interpretation
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description: The Military sacramentum was a requirement as important for Roman military organization as it was difficult to locate and define for modern research, which has traditionally prioritized some sources over others. Among the literary sources that have received the most attention, there have been works that have been used far more --such as Livy's Ab urbe condita or Tacitus' Annales and Historiae-- than others, and among these works, the Epistulae by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus stands out. In this work, inserted into the rich literary genre of epistolography, there are two mentions made by the author of the sacramentum, which, despite being few, provide a tremendous amount of information. The objective of this work is precisely to underline the importance of this information, long overlooked, and to provide some interpretations that shed light on the time of recruiment of recruits into the Roman Army, as well as on the influence this phenomenon had on the Christian lexicon of the Latin West from the third century AD onward.
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creator: Antonio Miguel Jiménez Serrano
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 77
ending page: 93
doi: 10.5209/geri.104204

The Greek City and its Games: Notes on the Olympic Boule and the Actian Boule in the Roman Imperial Period
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description: The agones were administered jointly by the sanctuary that hosted them and the city on which it depended. In Roman imperial times, Greek cities used these ceremonies to increase their prestige and visibility in relation to other civic communities. This is why many games were created ex novo in Greek-speaking territories. Some of these agons became so famous in the Roman Empire that its cities used their names to designate some of their institutions, such is the case of the Olympic Boulé and the Actian Boulé. This article will analyse the functions attributed to both institutions, expressly indicating their relationship with the agones, and will study the possible members that made up the Actian Boulé.
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creator: Rocío Gordillo Hervás
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 65
ending page: 76
doi: 10.5209/geri.104311

El conjunto monumental de Cercadilla (Córdoba) : posible sede del vicarius de la Dioecesis Hispaniarum y posterior centro cristiano de culto martirial.
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description: In this work we present an interpretation of the structures discovered at the archaeological site of Cercadilla (Córdoba), based on the analysis of the epigraphic and legal documentation, as well as the archaeological testimonies, concluding the hypothesis that this monumental complex, located in what was the suburbium occidentalis of Corduba, was built and had as its first function that of the headquarters of the vicarius of the Dioecesis Hispaniarum, subsequently passing, by decision of Constant I, into the power of the ecclesia cordubensis of Bishop Osio, who gave the complex a second use of a cult nature, establishing, among other elements, a martyr basilica.
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creator: Raquel Mª Alors Reifs
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 167
ending page: 188
doi: 10.5209/geri.105063

The Commentariolum petitionis by Quintus Cicero and the adulescentes nobiles: the barbatuli iuvenes. On the "Intergenerational Conflict" in the Late Republic
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description: This paper, which begins with a review of the study of youth in the late Republic, analyzes the references to youth in general, and to young noblemen in particular, in that peculiar little work composed by Arpinate's brother and known as the Candidate's Manual, in order to ask ourselves, among other questions, who constitutes this group of youths mentioned therein. Our proposal is that the youths referred to by Quintus Cicero in his pamphlet can be identified with the barbatuli iuvenes mentioned by his brother in letters to Atticus dated the first half of 61. Furthermore, and closely related to this first question, we believe that, contrary to what some authors have suggested in recent years, the events that occurred in the Urbs of the 1960s should not be viewed at all as an intergenerational conflict, a situation that, in our opinion, did not occur, at least not at that time. The erroneous interpretation of these events as a conflict between generations stems from an incorrect definition of this fundamental term.
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creator: Gustavo Vivas García
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 45
ending page: 63
doi: 10.5209/geri.105836

Lusitanian Banditry in the Context of Migratory Movements from Northwest Hispania towards the Tagus Valley
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description: This paper analyzes the various hypotheses that have been put forward regarding the phenomenon of so-called "Lusitanian banditry" and the causes of the Lusitanian Wars of the 2nd century BC, presenting a novel proposal that complements previous ones in order to provide a more robust and precise interpretation of these two issues. In this sense, it is argued that a fundamental cause for the emergence of what the Romans generally referred to as latrones and praedones in the southern territories of Lusitania during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC was the result of a series of gradual migratory movements that had been developing since the beginning of the 2nd century BC, originating from the northwest quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula, towards the Tagus Valley. This would have generated a disruption of economic and social equilibrium in this territory, provoking conflicts in the southern regions of Hispania already conquered by the Romans and contributing to the outbreak of the Lusitanian Wars.
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creator: Juan Carlos Olivares Pedreño
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 25
ending page: 44
doi: 10.5209/geri.105885

Sobre el origen del poblamiento de Canarias
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description: The origin of the human settlement of the Canary Islands is an open problem that tests the limits of historical knowledge. The aim of this research is to propose an explanatory model that allows us to understand the obscure process by which the archipielago became part of the inhabited world, part of humanity. The first part of this study reviews the archaeological record of the archipelago in order to establish the basic historical references. The second investigates the ethnic organisation of ancient Africa under Roman rule with the intention of revealing the complexity of the possible social contexts of origin of the first settlers of the islands. It explores the network of political, social and economic relations maintained between the Roman authorities and the African gentes, revising the old historiographical paradigms that conceived the links between them in Manichean and simplistic terms. As a result, I propose the hypothesis of an autonomous settlement (without any external intervention) forced by necessity, as the ultimate solution to a historical conjuncture such as to face the colonisation of a territory never contemplated as a habitable world until the 3rd century A.D.
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creator: José A. Delgado Delgado
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 139
ending page: 166
doi: 10.5209/geri.106209

Hadrian, Pater Patriae, and the cohors I Ulpia Dacorum. A New Fragment of a Military Diploma from AD 128
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description: This article presents an unpublished fragment of a Roman military diploma preserved in the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, dated to AD 128. The fragment belongs to tabula I of a diploma issued during the reign of Hadrian. The significance of the document lies in the fact that it constitutes one of the earliest epigraphic testimonies that can be dated with precision in which Hadrian is granted the title Pater Patriae, definitively accepted by the emperor in that same year. Furthermore, the study of the extrinsecus allows the diploma to be attributed to a soldier of the cohors I Ulpia Dacorum, a unit raised under Trajan and stationed on the Syrian front. The possible identification of the prefect Tiberius Claudius Maximinus suggests that the fragment may correspond to the earliest known discharge of this cohort, thus providing new evidence for the administrative and military history of the Roman East.
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creator: María José Estarán Tolosa
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 203
ending page: 210
doi: 10.5209/geri.107366

Governing the emergency: political organisation and social cohesion in a city under siege in Philo of Byzantium’s Μηχανικὴ Σύνταξις
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description: This paper analyses Philo of Byzantium's reflections on the liveability of cities under siege, focusing on Μηχανικὴ Σύνταξις as a key text in Hellenistic siegecraft manuals. Through an examination of the sections dedicated to defence, supply, and community management, the article proposes to interpret Philo's work as an integrated model of urban emergency governance. The resistance of the polis is outlined not only as a military problem, but also as a political, economic and social issue, based on preventive preparation, rational resource management, and civic cohesion. In dialogue with the theoretical tradition and historiographical evidence on sieges, the contribution highlights how Philo anticipates a concept of “urban resilience” in which liveability, social order, and the legitimacy of public authority are structurally interdependent elements.
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creator: Elena Santagati
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 9
ending page: 24
doi: 10.5209/geri.107529

A New Epigraphic Find from Lucena (Cordoba): The Epitaph of Deutera
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description: This paper presents the edition of a new funerary inscription recently discoverd within the municipal territory of Lucena (Cordoba). It is a white limestone stele preserving the epitaph of a woman named Deutera, dated to the Julio-Claudian period. The find is remarkable for its onomastic interest, as the uninominal structure of the name suggests that she was a slave, reinforced by the Greek origin of the anthroponym, which is moreover sparsely attested in Hispanian epigraphy. Consequently, her attestation in such an early historical context, within an area of incipient Romanization, allows us to suggests a link with a family of Roman citizens or or with a deeply Romanised. In this regard, a possible association with the Fuficii is proposed, a gens of propable Italic origin, possibly settled in Augusta Firma (Astigi), which may have owned rural estates in what is now the Campiña Sur and Subbética regions of Cordoba.
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creator: Víctor Andrés Torres González
creator: José Ortiz Córdoba
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 189
ending page: 201
doi: 10.5209/geri.107545

Libros recibidos en 2025
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subject: Libros recibidos
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creator: Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 261
ending page: 264

Michele Renee Salzman, Las caídas de Roma. Crisis, resiliencia y resurgimiento en la Antigüedad tardía, Madrid, Editorial Gredos, 2025, 576 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-2499-890-5]
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Pablo Fernández-Garay
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 257
ending page: 259
doi: 10.5209/geri.108397

Marta Szada, Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 360 pp. [ISBN: 978-1-009-42644-2]
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: María Fernández Portaencasa
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 253
ending page: 255
doi: 10.5209/geri.108396

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108395
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title: Pedro Trapero Fernández – André Carneiro (eds.), GIS Applications in Roman Landscape and Territory: Methodologies and models in Hispania (=BAR International Series 3139), Oxford, BAR Publishing, 2023, 190 pp. [ISBN: 978-1-4073-5418-7]
subject: Reviews
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creator: Javier Antón Barbosa
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 249
ending page: 252
doi: 10.5209/geri.108395

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108394
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title: Guadalupe López Monteagudo – Gregorio Carrasco Serrano, Los mosaicos romanos en Castilla-La Mancha (=Ediciones Institucionales 151), Cuenca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2025, 209 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-9044-727-7]
subject: Reviews
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creator: David Romero Ferández
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 247
ending page: 248
doi: 10.5209/geri.108394

Stephen Dando-Collins, César contra Pompeyo: El mejor general, estadista y constructor nacional de Roma, Córdoba, Erasmus, 2025, 304 pp. [ISBN 978-8410199453]
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subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Miguel Ángel Novillo López
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 243
ending page: 245
doi: 10.5209/geri.108393

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108392
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title: Gian Luca Gregori – Estela García Fernández (eds) Onomastica romana e stato giuridico. Hispania e Nord Italia a confronto: alcuni casi di studio (Atti del Seminario Internazionale Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6-7 marzo 2023) (=Studi Miscellanei 43),
subject: Reviews
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creator: David Martino
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 239
ending page: 241
doi: 10.5209/geri.108392

Laura Sancho Rocher – Manel García Sánchez (eds.), Democracia, ley e instituciones (Antiguas y Modernas), Madrid, Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2024, 381 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-19782-94-6]
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Lucía Sánchez Mur
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 235
ending page: 237
doi: 10.5209/geri.108390

Juan Pablo Ramis, Conflicto interno y concordia en el pensamiento político de Isócrates, Ciudad de Mendoza, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-Edifil, 2025, 306 páginas [ISBN: 978-950-774-441-9]
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Laura Sancho Rocher
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 233
ending page: 234
doi: 10.5209/geri.108389

Katia Margariti, Dogs in Athenian Sculpture and vase painting of the Archaic and Classical periods, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2025, 401 pp. [ISBN: 978-1-80327-997-8]
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Sebastián Uribe Rodríguez
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 229
ending page: 231
doi: 10.5209/geri.108388

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108387
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title: Miriam A. Valdés Guía, The Thetes of Athens. Dynamics and Developments of the Athenian Lower Classes (Seventh to Fourth Centuries BC), Lausanne-Berlin, Peter Lang, 2025, 627 pp. [ISBN: 978-3-631-93221-6]
subject: Reviews
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creator: Aida Fernández Prieto
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 225
ending page: 227
doi: 10.5209/geri.108387

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/en/article/view/108386
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title: Isabel Izquierdo Peraile – Alicia Rodero Riaza – Hélène Le Meaux (eds.), Diálogos de escultura ibérica. El Museo del Louvre en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 2025, 95 pp. [NIPO: 190-25-189-X; ISBN: 978-84-8003-681-8]
subject: Reviews
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creator: Jorge García Cardiel
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 221
ending page: 223
doi: 10.5209/geri.108386

Francesco Prontera, Al di qua delle Colonne d’Ercole. Scoperta e rappresentazioni del Mediterraneo, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2025, 266 pp. [ISBN 978-88-222-6946-1]
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subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Encarnación Castro-Páez
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 219
ending page: 220
doi: 10.5209/geri.108385

Marco Ramazzotti. Archeologia, arte e paesaggio tra Asia occidentale e Mediterraneo orientale, ca. 4500-323 a.C., Milano, Mondadori Università, 2025, 522 pp., LI mapas [ISBN: 979-12-2060-007-1]
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Fernando Escribano Martín
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 215
ending page: 217
doi: 10.5209/geri.108384

Dina Serova – Uros Matić (eds.), Bodies that Mattered. Ancient Egyptian Corporealities, Sidestone Press, 2025, 254 pp. [ISBN: 978-94-6427-129-4]
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Clara Martínez-Moreno
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: 211
ending page: 213
doi: 10.5209/geri.108383

A Fluvial Treaty, a Historiographical Delta: Carthage, Rome, the Ebro and the Others. Introductory Study
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description: This paper offers a general assessment of the Treaty of the River Iber, concluded on the Iberian Peninsula between the Romans and the Carthaginians in 226 BC. It highlights the impact and issues raised by this agreement in both ancient and recent historiographical discourse on the struggle between Carthaginian and Roman domains in the western Mediterranean, also considering the role of third-party actors and scenarios involved, i.e., other agencies and narratives obscured in the literary sources preserved on the episode. In addition, the contents of the contributions that make up the monographic section are presented
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creator: Eduardo Sánchez Moreno
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2025-12-17
publication date: 2025-12-17
starting page: 297
ending page: 325
doi: 10.5209/geri.78991

From Temple to Church: A New Methodological Reassessment of the Study of the Religious Landscape in Late Antique Egypt
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description: The destruction of temples and their conversion into churches was a powerful symbol of the shifting religious landscape in Late Antique Egypt. Christian communities recognized the symbolic weight of such acts of violence, understanding their immediate impact as both a demonstration of political authority and a testament to spiritual conviction across the empire. Beyond the physical destruction of temples, the iconoclastic actions carried deep material significance and were accompanied by a broader discourse on religious transformation. This paper seeks to examine the narrative and methodological patterns found in Egyptian hagiography, particularly in relation to the dismantling of the pagan landscape and the establishment of a new Christian one, now under the dominion of the cross. It explores the idea that the ancient temples of the Egyptian gods were perceived as liminal spaces, marking a transitional stage in the spiritual and material ascendancy of Christianity.
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creator: Ariadna Guimerà
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2025-12-17
publication date: 2025-12-17
starting page: 575
ending page: 595
doi: 10.5209/geri.98238

C. Mucius’ Missing Hand: The Manipulation of a Foundational Roman Legend in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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description: The legendary tale of C. Mucius’ confrontation with the Etruscan king Lars Porsenna is among the most memorable stories that the Romans told about their early history and became an important staple of the tradition of exemplary tales. The history and development of the Mucius legend have long been a subject of scholarly interest. The present article focuses on the account found in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, where the historian omits the central detail of Mucius plunging his hand into the fire. Dionysius’ unusual treatment of this story elucidates his historiographical methods, priorities and relationship to the received tradition.
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creator: Benjamin Adam Jerue
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2025-12-17
publication date: 2025-12-17
starting page: 509
ending page: 524
doi: 10.5209/geri.99049

Linguistic Analysis and Appeal Procedure at the Council of Nicaea (325): A Unitary Study about the Documentary Controversy Happened in the First Ecumenical Council and the Homoousios Debate
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description: Both in Ancient sources and in Contemporary scholarly publications on the Council of Nicaea (325), there is a lack of a unified account of the identity and meaning of the interrelation of the various documents (letters, creeds) brought up at the first ecumenical council. This paper will present a proposal to fill that gap. Particularly, this article will offer, for the first time, a detailed documentary (not merely hypothetical) reconstruction of the concrete way in which the debate about the famous term homoousios arose in Nicaea. Not surprisingly, the homoousios is an element intimately linked to the articulation of the documentary dispute that took place at the Council. Thus, it will be argued that the main purpose of the conciliar convocatoin was the political and religious strengthening of the Roman Empire on the basis of a formula of faith that was to result from the linguistic-theological analysis of the creed that bishop Eusebius of Caesarea presented at Nicaea as an appeal against his excommunication at the Council of Antioch (325).
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creator: Unai Buil Zamorano
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
date: 2025-12-17
publication date: 2025-12-17
starting page: 553
ending page: 574
doi: 10.5209/geri.100033