Jaime Molina Vidal

La irrupciÓn de Hispania en los movimientos socioeconÓmicos del Mediterráneo Occidental durante las Guerras Civiles

The present study analyses the changes experienced by the Hispanic economy at the end of the Republican era, enabling production to exceed modest levels and to penetrate into the Mediterranean markets, including Rome itself. We have maintained that the inrush of Hispanic goods must have taken place before the August era, during the Civil War period. We have also provided new elements that focus on this period, and especially that the Caesar, as being a key moment in the Hispanic economy that was to become a main focus in migratory movements, investments and new techniques, as well as approaches in agricultural and commercial production. Likewise, we have pointed out some of the repercussions that this peak in the Hispanic economy had, for example, in the investments that took place in the Italian peninsula, or the decadence of Apulian agriculture.

Housing slaves on estates: a proposed ergastulum at the Villa of Rufio (Giano dell'Umbria)

The research project “Archaeological fieldwork in the Villa of Rufio: Production and Territory in the Via Flaminia” was developed by invitation from the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Umbria and the Comune di Giano dell’Umbria and co-funded by the Ministry of Culture, Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage and the University of Alicante Grants ACIE 2008-2013 (ACIE 08-07; 09-02; 11-06; 12-05; 13-12), and HAR2015-65168-P and HAR2015-64601-C3-2-R.

La villa de la C/ Olimpo y la organización territorial de la periferia urbana de Lucentum (Alicante)

Investigacion desarrollada en el marco de los proyectos de investigacion del MINECO, Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (HAR2012-37003-C03-02 y HAR2012-32881), Ministerio de Cultura (IPCE/PERUSA 07-11) y Universidad de Alicante (ACIE08-07).

Poblamiento rural en el territorium de Ilici: la granja romana de El Cabezo-Clot de Galvany (Elx, Alacant)

We present a Roman farm (1st to 3rd century AD) located in the natural park of The Clot of Galvany (Elx), next to a wetland of poor soils. Its peripheral location with respect to the centuriated area in Ilici , the material remains that have been found (mills, absence of transformation structures, relative isolation) and the remarkable structural and functional simplicity emphasize the self-sufficient character of this settlement. The archaeological area was abandoned after the Roman period and it was occupied again from the 17 th century, coinciding with the population growth in Modern age, as evidenced by the building of a chapel. All these lead us to raise questions concerning the demographic pressure in Early Imperial period and the characterization of non-oligarchic peasant settlements of the Roman territories.

Cleòpatra, l'últim filtre: deconstrucció d'un personatge històric

Quedem, per tant, en el nostre territori, en el dels historiadors. Aprenguem les nostres limitacions. Ensenyem a reconeixer-les . Deixem a “poetes i mitografs”, periodistes i cronistes, publicistes i tertulians l’erratic art d’analitzar el detall, de mostrar l’esdeveniment, perque presumisquen, equivocadament, de comprendre l’esdevenir historic, amb l’unic afany de vendre’ns noves cada dia. Reflexionem sobre l’assumida idea que els personatges son els protagonistes de la historia, i no les persones; que les voluntats individuals marquen el desti final de la gent, i no els canvis socials, economics o culturals; que les contingencies s’imposen a les estructures, o que, comptat i debatut, les habilitats d’una dona van canviar el desti de Roma. Si aconseguirem ensenyar que la historia esta “mes aci” dels personatges. Si poguerem demostrar que aquests personatges no son reals, no van existir mai, ja que no son mes que meres construccions historiques basades en innumerables categories ideologiques, historiografiques, propagandistiques o filosofiques. Si arribarem a mostrar que tot es redueix a un joc d’espills i que el seu patro no es mes que una altra imatge de la realitat. En definitiva, si saberem desvelar alguns dels filtres que van servir per a construir la imatge regenerada de Cleopatra, hauriem arribat l’objectiu d’aquest treball. Aprenguem que en el territori dels personatges, el mes enlla, no trobarem “garanties o evidencies”.