CN. IULIUS AGRICOLA AS AN IMPERIAL LEGATE IN THE GALIA AQUITANIA: AN ATTEMPT OF HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL RECONSTRUCTION
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https://doi.org/10.53382/issn.0719-9902.34Keywords:
Agricola, Gaul Aquitaine, Provincial legate, Roman administration, Roman provincial interdependenceAbstract
This article aims to describe and rebuild the provincial command of Cn. Julio Agrícola in Gallia Aquitania. The life of Agrícola carried out by Tacitus and subsequent historiographical studies have given little relevance to this fact, framing it only as a previous milestone to reach the consulate. The lack of evidence of all kinds complicates the task; in this way, with the written sources, it is necessary to give the context, geographical models, and the idea of Roman provincial interdependence an explanation of how Agrícola exercised the provincial command. In this way, we propose an attempt to reconstruct how a governor was chosen, as well as the foreseeable tasks and functions that he had to carry out in command of a province of praetorian rank at the beginning of the Flavian Era. We will argue throughout this article that the Roman Empire developed a complex mechanism for the appointment of positions, with Agrícola, his life and his passage through Aquitaine an example of the above.
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