Sailing towards the west. Trade and traders between the Peninsula Iberica and the Campania between the II century B.C. and the I century A.D.

Within the vast and complex phenomenon of the Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula, which began soon after the Second Punic War, at the end of the III century BC, it is possible to recognize an influence from the area of ancient Campania: through the study of the entire epigraphic documentation available in the eastern part of the Roman Hispaniae (with the creation of a proper register of the attested gentilitia) and through the analysis of some archaeological remains of fundamental importance like, among other things, the numerous shipwrecks found in the western Mediterranean, it is possible to reconstruct part of a large flow of people, already documented by the ancient authors, that in II and I centuries BC moved from Campania to the Iberian Peninsula, and devoted themselves to the exploitation of the rich resources, mainly mining and agriculture, available in the newly conquered Western lands. Ports of departure and arrival points, routes and trade excanhges, new foundations and relations with indigenous peoples constitute some of the most important points of interest of this Ph.D. research, that tries to reconstruct the possible points of origin of each Roman family documented in the cities of Carthago Nova (Cartagena), Lucentum (Alicante), Ilici (Elche), Allon (Villajoyosa),Dianium (Denia), Saetabis (Xativa), Edeta (Liria), Valentia (Valencia) and Saguntum(Sagunto).