AS CUNHAGENS DA DEUSA HÉCATE DURANTE A DINASTIA DOS SEVEROS (II - III EC) EM ESTRATONICÉIA: ICONOGRAFIA E LEGITIMIDADE DO PODER IMPERIAL NO MEDITERRÂNEO ROMANO

Abstract

This research aims to analyze Roman coins produced during the reign of the Severan dynasty (193-235 AD), whose minting depicts the goddess Hecate in its iconographic corpus. In this sense, the study seeks to establish the role of coins in the socio-political and cultural structures of Roman society. In particular, we investigate the provincial issues of Stratoniceia, a city in Caria, located in Asia Minor during the rule of the Roman Empire. In this sense, we seek publications and research in this area, focusing on the relationship between religiosity, politics, and power in these coins, using the perspective of numismatic studies. In addition, we present relevant research that develops the historical repertoire of the Severans and the goddess Hecate in the Greco-Roman world, exploring cultural and political elements. Thus, our ultimate goal is to demonstrate how the Severans policy of legitimization manifested itself in the civic coins of the Roman provincial territory, covering the discourses involved in the association between Hecate and the dynasty.