Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia
Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations
Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia
Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations
During the first millennium BCE, complex encounters of Phoenician and Greek colonists with natives of the Iberian Peninsula transformed the region and influenced the entire history of the Mediterranean.
One of the first books on these encounters to appear in English, this volume brings together a multinational group of contributors to explore ancient Iberia’s colonies and indigenous societies, as well as the comparative study of colonialism. These scholars—from a range of disciplines including classics, history, anthropology, and archaeology—address such topics as trade and consumption, changing urban landscapes, cultural transformations, and the ways in which these issues played out in the Greek and Phoenician imaginations. Situating ancient Iberia within Mediterranean colonial history and establishing a theoretical framework for approaching encounters between colonists and natives, these studies exemplify the new intellectual vistas opened by the engagement of colonial studies with Iberian history.
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Table of Contents
Ex Occidente Lux: A Preface
Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz
Part I Theoretical Issues and Frameworks
1 Colonial Encounters in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean: An Exploratory Framework
Michael Dietler
2 Colonial Relations and Social Change in Iberia (Seventh to Third Centuries BC)
Joan Sanmartí
Part II New Perspectives on Phoenician and Greek Ventures on the Mediterranean and Atlantic Coasts
3 Colonial Contacts and Protohistoric Indigenous Urbanism on the Mediterranean Coast of the Iberian Peninsula
Maria Carme Belarte
4 Phoenician Colonization on the Atlantic Coast of the Iberian Peninsula
Ana Margarida Arruda
5 Greeks and the Iberian Peninsula: Forms of Exchange and Settlements
Pierre Rouillard
Part III Plant Resources, Agrarian Practices, and the Colonial Political Economy
6 Botanical and Archaeological Dimensions of the Colonial Encounter
Ramon Buxó
7 Lumbermen and Shipwrights: Phoenicians on the Mediterranean Coast of Southern Spain
Brigitte Treumann
Part IV The Question of Tartessos: A Debate Reframed
8 Phoenicians in Tartessos
María Belén Deamos
9 Precolonization and Colonization in the Interior of Tartessos
Sebastián Celestino Pérez
Part V Interrogating Colonial Texts and Imagined Landscapes
10 Tarshish and Tartessos Revisited: Textual Problems and Historical Implications
Carolina López-Ruiz
11 Iberia in the Greek Geographical Imagination
Javier Gómez Espelosín
Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: A Coda
Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz
List of Contributors
Index