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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Elder Seneca and Spain
Contributor:
Griffin, Miriam
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1972
Published in:Journal of Roman Studies
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2307/298921
ISSN:
0075-4358;
1753-528X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>The Seneca family came to Rome from Spain, the province that Rome took from Carthage in the Second Punic War, acquiring thereby great mineral wealth, splendid soldiers, and a war of conquest that took nearly two centuries to complete. Rome's motive in acquiring Spain was strategic, yet she had been impressed by the wealth that had recently sustained Hannibal's armies and with the abilities of the Spanish troops that both sides had used. But nothing so impressed the Romans with the military talents of the Spaniards as the resistance they put up to their rule. By the second half of the second century Baetica was already pacified, so that the main trouble there came from the raids of Lusitanian brigands; at that time horrific stories were being told of the Celtiberians who fought at Numantia; they in their turn were becoming τογᾶτοι when similar tales were being told, more than a century later, of the Astures and Cantabri with whom Augustus had to deal.</jats:p>