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Military Presence and Civic Integration in Hispania Ulterior from Sertorius to Caesar offers an interdisciplinary reassessment of Roman activity in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the 1st century BC. The book integrates archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and literary evidence to illuminate the complex interplay between military conflict, social transformation, and processes of civic integration in Hispania Ulterior.
Covering the period framed by the wars of Sertorius and Caesar, and situated within the broader struggles between populares and optimates, the volume examines how Roman armies and provincial communities—both Hispanian and Italic—shaped one another through coexistence, violence, adaptation, and cultural interaction. By analysing the role of the western provinces as providers of manpower, resources, and strategic enclaves, the studies collected here contribute to ongoing debates on the Roman war economy and the evolving nature of provincial participation in Republican military structures.
The three-part structure reflects the thematic breadth of the book. The first section investigates the military conflicts of Hispania Ulterior from the early stages of Roman expansion to the Caesarian-Pompeian civil war, highlighting the involvement of local communities, the mobilisation of regional resources, and the strategic importance of sites such as Cáceres el Viejo and Ulia. The second section focuses on the archaeological evidence of Roman military presence—camps, weaponry, coinage, and ceramic assemblages—revealing patterns of territorial control and the daily interactions that fostered cultural exchange. The final section analyses the legal and civic integration of provincial populations, tracing how colonial towns, the granting of Latin rights, and the expansion of Roman citizenship contributed to the emergence of new urban, administrative, and social landscapes. These developments, exemplified by the colonisation and municipalisation programmes of Caesar and Augustus, laid the groundwork for the consolidation of the Hispanian provinces under the Principate.
By emphasising the active role of provincial communities and challenging traditional narratives of unilateral Roman domination, Military Presence and Civic Integration in Hispania Ulterior from Sertorius to Caesar provides a nuanced understanding of Romanisation as a dynamic and multifaceted process. It presents the 1st century BC not merely as a period of civil war but as a transformative era in which new forms of identity, loyalty, and civic belonging emerged, reshaping the trajectory of Hispania within the Roman world.
Contents
Preface - David Espinosa Espinosa, Carlos Pereira, Estela García Fernández and Ángel Morillo
I - MILITARY CONFLICT IN HISPANIA ULTERIOR
1. From Viriathus to Sertorius: The River Tagus region as a 'middle ground' in Roman expansion in Hispania Ulterior. Some open questions - Eduardo Sánchez Moreno
2. The Late Republican legionary fortress at Cáceres el Viejo (Cáceres, Spain). Q. Caecilius Metellus' strategic axis against Sertorius - Ángel Morillo and Carlos Pereira
3. Western coin hoards and other coin finds between the Douro and Tagus rivers as evidence of Roman occupation and control during the 1st century BC: Gold as the objective - Cruces Blázquez Cerrato
4. Following in the footsteps of Julius Caesar: A Caesarian battlefield in Ulia (Montemayor, Córdoba, Spain) - Fernando Quesada Sanz, Javier Moralejo Ordax, Jesús Robles Moreno and Pablo S. Harding Vera
II - MILITARY PRESENCE IN HISPANIA ULTERIOR
5. Episodes of war in Lusitania from Sertorius to Caesar: action and reaction - Carlos Pereira, Ángel Morillo and Cruces Blázquez Cerrato
6. The Late Republican settlement of Monte Dos Castelinhos (Vila Franca De Xira, Portugal) - João Pimenta
7. Roman Late Republican armament (1st century BC) according to finds in the Iberian Peninsula - Carmelo Fernández Ibáñez
8. Amphorae in Roman military and civilian contexts between the Sertorian period and the mid-1st century BC in the Western Iberian Peninsula - Rui Morais
9. Imitations of Roman ware and military spaces in Iberia: Republican grey burnished ware (Rgb) - Andrés María Adroher Auroux
III - CIVIC INTEGRATION IN HISPANIA ULTERIOR
10. The provincialisation of Hispania and the Socii ex formula togatorum - Estela García Fernández
11. The legal integration of Hispanian and Italic populations in Hispania Ulterior from Sertorius to Caesar: Modalities and historical contexts - David Espinosa Espinosa
12. Legal changes and social transformations in the communities of Hispania Ulterior: Caesarian colonisation and its historical implications in the south of the Iberian Peninsula - José Ortiz Córdoba
13. From Ulterior to Lusitania: new civitates for a new provincial framework - Enrique Paredes Martín
