After the 68-69 A. C.’s civil war – that caused Vespasian’s acclamation
as imperial princeps and opened the Flavian dinasty – Vespasian
himself granted – as Pliny says (Nat., III, 30) – the ius Latti uniuersae
Hispaniae. Such a donation must be related with the integrations’ and
reorganizations’ purposals that the first of the flavians emperors had
planned for being applied in the three Spanish imperial provinces.
Those reforms would be evidents in the imperial cult’s reorganization
and in the major role that Hispania was called to play in the promotion of the municipal elites – grown as ciuitas Romana’s acquisition’s
results linked wiht Latium’s grant – to the ordines superiores. Following
the Latin grant and as its consequence, the ancient Spanish ciuitates
sitpendiariae will be transformed into municipia Flauia, with
municipal laws and fully roman organization and institutions. The following
article studies the incidence that those reforms – that were fully
developped in the Flavian emperors’ period (69-96 A. C.) – had in the
prouincia Lusitania, presenting and studying all the documentation
– mainly epigraphical – that still remains for the scholars in order to
have better knowledge of such an important period in the Spain’s
Ancient History.
