Abstract

LLANTEN QUIROZ, Nicolás Fernando  and  PENNA ORDENES, Nicolás Eduardo. Jupiterization in Signa Militaria: Symbolic Changes into Roman Social-Military Structure. Nova tellus [online]. 2019, vol.37, n.2, pp.85-105. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2019.37.2.818.

This article presents a new interpretation regarding political-religious symbolism in Roman military insignias at the end of 2nd century BC whose removing four of five insignias would be closely related to the reforms to institute professional army accomplished by Gaius Marius. In this case the survival of the eagle insignia is related to supremacy of god Jupiter above god Mars, who symbolically in its origin was also an agricultural god whose religious appearance still incarnates the ideal of duality peasant-soldier eliminated by the new professional soldier.

Keywords : Jupiterization; Signa Militaria; Peasant-Soldier; Symbolism; Eagle.

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