The influx of groups of Easterners to Hispania continued even after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Epigraphic material —mostly epitaphs— inscribed in Greek by immigrants who settled in the province of Lusitania was found in the modern-day localities of Mérida, Mértola and Plasenzuela. The present essay proposes the Aegean-Anatolian area as the homeland of at least part of these groups of immigrants and discusses the motivations of their coming, adding historical and archaeological evidence to the epigraphic and linguistic data, these last two the main indications of their permanence in Lusitanian territory.
Comunidades helenógrafas en la Lusitania visigoda (s. VI)
Miguel Valério
2013
Abstract
The influx of groups of Easterners to Hispania continued even after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Epigraphic material —mostly epitaphs— inscribed in Greek by immigrants who settled in the province of Lusitania was found in the modern-day localities of Mérida, Mértola and Plasenzuela. The present essay proposes the Aegean-Anatolian area as the homeland of at least part of these groups of immigrants and discusses the motivations of their coming, adding historical and archaeological evidence to the epigraphic and linguistic data, these last two the main indications of their permanence in Lusitanian territory.File in questo prodotto:
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