Los cultos orientales en la dacia romana : Formas de difusión, integración y control social e ideológico

The author addresses a very broad topic not discussed so far by the Romanian historiography, nor the Spanish, nor the European historiography in general, covering a gap in a long series of international studies devoted to different eastern cults and provinces of the Roman Empire (EPRO-RGRW series of Brill). It first presents a methodological introduction and a very complete statement on the matter, supported by a synthetic exposition of the geographical and historical context. The central part of the thesis is devoted to the study of the spread of these cults in the three Dacian provinces, devoting several chapters to Mithraism, to Syrian cults, to the cults of Asia Minor and to Egyptian cults. At them, the author analyzes the distribution of epigraphic monuments, sculptures and temples of each cult, the chronology of the spread, onomastics and ethnicity of dedicants, and also its social distribution, establishing as categories the different social ordines and occupations. It also includes a chapter devoted to the problem of identification of Sol Invictus and another in which we analyze together the spread of cults. A third, more interpretive part, focuses on the relationship of the Imperial Cult and the cults of eastern origin and on the ways of integration and social and ideological control so far observed. After the conclusions in Spanish, an extensive summary and conclusions in Romanian are included. The first volume is completed with a rich bibliography, lists of images and abbreviations. For its part, the second volume includes an extensive and complete epigraphic corpus, complemented by different matching lists, bibliographical abbreviations and an extensive appendix of high quality photographs and drawings, with a list that indicates their places of origin. Finally, we add a useful and large analytical index of both volumes.