Religión, política y sociedad: los prodigia en la Roma republicana

Abstract

The final objective of this study is to make an approchement between Ancient History and the quantitative analysis. First of all, we have studied the literary and bibliographic sources that relate or enumerate the prodigia to create a database with them. After that, we started our quantitative or statistical analysis. With the results of this analysis, we wondered if the statistical methodology could be useful to the studies on Ancient History, specially in relation with the Roman Republic. Moreover, we used this analysis to research many aspects related to the Roman Republic religion, like the interference between the politics and the prodigies, the role played by the public priesthoods and the possible consequences in the Roman society. The statistical information obtained is presented in a clear and accessible way.