Onomastique, société et identité culturelle en Lusitanie romaine (ADOPIA I)

This book represents an important step forward in our understanding of the population and sociocultural mosaic of Lusitania, the most westerly province of the Roman Empire. Thanks to the advances made possible by the Digital Humanities project ADOPIA (“Digital Onomastic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity”: http://adopia.huma-num.fr/en/home), it illustrates the many different ways in which the personal names of individuals attested epigraphically from the end of the 1st century B.C. to the mid-3rd century A.D. allow us to gain a better appreciation of a provincial society and its cultural identity. In Lusitania, numerous civic communities of a variety of different statuses offer new avenues for understanding the juridical, social and cultural changes that took place in the province under Roman rule. This book provides a study not only of the processes of interculturality but also of the important survival of pre-Roman cultures, well identified in other regions, but which find expression in a particularly original way in Lusitania through indigenous onomastics and supra-familial organizations.