2026-04-14T03:29:51Zhttps://recercat.cat/oai/requestoai:recercat.cat:20.500.14342/57162026-01-08T19:42:01Zcom_2072_482405com_2072_183628col_2072_482411
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Blomart, Alain
2025
978-88-5491-669-2
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/5716
This study reviews each of the deities on Rome’s Tiber Island attested in the Republican and Imperial
eras and summarizes the main literary, archaeological and epigraphic documentation. The aim is to
examine, from an anthropological point of view, the location of the temples on Tiber Island, which
was situated outside the pomerium – the sacred boundary of the Urbs. This means, firstly, identifying the
symbolic functions of each divinity in the Roman imaginary and, secondly, showing that deities were
honoured on the island as they were functionally linked to each other. We attempt to demonstrate that
the divinities of the Tiberine Island (Aesculapius, Veiovis, Faunus, Bellona, Semo Sancus, etc.) have in
common that they represent a form of periphery/alterity, given their contact with death, savagery, vio-
lence, social marginality, and the uncivilized and pre-rational world. The characteristics and functions of
these deities thus represented an anti-model of the Roman identity constituted by concepts such as life,
the civilized and rational world, peace, and citizenship, all associated with the internal space of the city
of Rome. This research is accompanied by a reflection on the duality of the gods of the margins, who
could at the same time possess a temple in the center of the city.
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Identitat romana
Temples romans
Antropologia
Història
L'Île Tibérine et ses cultes des marges en relation: anthropologie de l'espace et construction de l'identité romaine
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