Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations
Michael Dietler and Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
Abstract
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. This book 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 whic ... More
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. This book 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.
Keywords:
ancient Iberia,
Greek colonists,
Iberian Peninsula,
indigenous societies,
colonialism,
trade,
urban landscapes,
colonial history,
natives
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226148472 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: March 2013 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226148489.001.0001 |
