Dietler, Michael, and Carolina López-Ruiz (editors) (2009).  Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

During the first millennium BCE, complex encounters of Phoenician and Greek colonists with native peoples of the Iberian Peninsula transformed the region and influenced the history of the greater 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.

 

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