Renovatio temporum. La nueva semántica del poder diárquico a través de sus panegíricos (289-291 D.C.)

espanolEl caracter laudatorio de los panegiricos latinos ha minimizado su importancia como fuente historica bajo la idea de que la precision de los datos se ve logicamente mermada por la funcion propagandistica que desempenaban. El objetivo de este articulo es analizar las narrativas de legitimacion del poder imperial diarquico que desprenden sus panegiricos y que, como podra observarse, no son fruto de referencias arbitrarias, eruditas o meramente ornamentales, sino que componen un discurso politico-religioso con plena coherencia interna sobre el mensaje que el aparato imperial buscaba transmitir como ruptura del periodo precedente: de la etapa del caos y la fragmentacion del poder, a un nuevo orden que reclama y se encamina hacia un poder politico predestinado y unitario. EnglishThe laudatory nature of Latin Panegyrics has minimised their importance of this historical source due to the fact that the accuracy of the data is obviously decreased by their propaganda function. The aim of this paper is to analyse the narratives constructed and shape in panegyrics in order to legitimase the imperial power structure during the Diarchy, which, as can be observed, are not arbitrary or decorative references but a part of a political discourse with a full internal consistency driven by a imperial system that want to be self-represented as a break point in contrast to the former period: from an age dominated by chaos and fragmentation in roman institutional frame, to a new order based on a predestined and unitary political power.