Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226148475 ISBN 13: 9780226148472

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Dietler is associate professor of anthropology, associate in classics, and member of the Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. Carolina López-Ruiz is assistant professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University.

Review:

“Iberia was one of the major regions of the Iron Age Mediterranean, but it remains poorly known among English-language archaeologists, historians, and classicists. This book, providing superb case studies of everything from the literary sources to the botanical remains, will be required reading for many years to come.”

(Ian Morris, Stanford University)

“The diversity of authors in this collection is noteworthy, and the archaeological and historical data they present are rich and highly useful. This book will be a widely consulted benchmark in the study of early Iberian colonialism, and will stimulate focused, interactive debates over the topic for years to come.”—Susan E. Alcock, Brown University

(Susan E. Alcock, Brown University)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0226148475
• ISBN 13: 9780226148472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Dietler Michael, López-Ruiz Carolina