I culti dei militari traci nelle province danubiane (ad eccezione della Mesia Inferiore)

In the last years, the two authors carried out an investigation on the dedications of Thracian soldiers (praetorians and equites singulares Augusti) in the third century Rome. On this occasion, they choose to focus on the documents and monuments of the Thracians who served in the legions and auxiliary corps of the Danubian provinces, which can be analysed from different points of view, as clues of an acculturation process, of their esprit de corps and religious attitude. The structuring of the paper into different sections (chronology and typology of the evidence, origin and corps belonging of the soldiers, secular and religious signs of an acculturation), next to the recording of the data, permitted to provide a brief focus on eloquent episodes or individuals. As for the religious practices, the dossier reveals different ways of relating to the divine world. The epithets of gods, for instance, are a sign of a process of acculturation, even if often the criteria by which it is achieved (translation, assimilation, adhesion) are not clear.