ESTRABÃO E O DOMÍNIO ROMANO SOBRE A IBÉRIA: UM ESTUDO À LUZ DOS CONCEITOS DE ISOTOPIA E HETEROTOPIA (27 a.C. - 23 d.C.)

Abstract

Strabo's Geography helps us to understand the processes of conquest that led to the consolidation of the Roman Empire, as well as to understand the cultural interactions between Romans and indigenous peoples, a phenomenon we know as Romanization. In Book III of Geography, Strabo represents the physical, biological and cultural space of Iberia, generating a polarization between the south and east regions, considered as isotopies, and the north, treated as a heterotopy. In this way, through Content Analysis, a method developed by Laurence Bardin, we found that Strabo uses several characteristics to formulate a vision that connects the peoples of southern and eastern Iberia to Roman identity, while also showing the otherness of northern peoples. Such a dichotomized view, for us, is nothing more than Strabo's strategy to justify the Roman conquest of northern Iberia, while exposing a purpose of transforming that space according to Greco-Roman cultural standards. Such modification would be achieved mainly through the introduction of a Roman type urban model replacing the pre-Roman models, which Strabo names in a generalized way as tribes. That said, we conducted this research based on a set of guiding concepts, namely: empire/imperialism, romanization, representation, identity/alterity, space, in addition to our main concepts, isotopia and heterotopia.