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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962111203321

Titolo

Colonial encounters in ancient Iberia : Phoenician, Greek, and indigenous relations / / edited by Michael Dietler and Carolina Lopez-Ruiz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612538735

9781282538733

128253873X

9780226148489

0226148483

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

DietlerMichael

Lopez-RuizCarolina

Disciplina

936.6/02

Soggetti

Phoenicians - Iberian Peninsula

Greeks - Iberian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula Antiquities

Tartessos (Kingdom) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ex occidente lux: a preface / Michael Dietler and Carolina Lopez-Ruiz -- Theoretical issues and frameworks -- Colonial encounters in Iberia and the western Mediterranean: an exploratory framework / Michael Dietler -- Colonial relations and social change in Iberia (seventh to third centuries bc) / Joan Sanmarti -- New perspectives on Phoenician and Greek ventures on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts -- Colonial contacts and protohistoric indigenous urbanism on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian peninsula / Maria Carme Belarte -- Phoenician colonization on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula / Ana Marguerida Arruda -- Greeks and the Iberian peninsula: forms of exchange and settlements / Pierre Rouillard -- Plant resources, agrarian practices, and the colonial political economy -- Botanical and archaeological dimensions of the colonial encounter / Ramon Buxo -- Lumbermen and shipwrights: Phoenicians on the Mediterranean coast



of southern Spain / Brigitte Treumann -- The question of Tartessos: a debate reframed -- Phoenicians in Tartessos / Maria Belen Deamos -- Precolonization and colonization in the interior of Tartessos / Sebastian Celestino Perez -- Interrogating colonial texts and imagined landscapes -- Tarshish and Tartessos revisited: textual problems and historical implications / Carolina Lopez-Ruiz -- Iberia in the Greek geographical imagination / Javier Gomez Espelosin -- Colonial encounters in ancient Iberia: a coda.

Sommario/riassunto

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 t