Greek Marseille and Mediterranean Celtic Region

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• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781453916896
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

This unique collection of essays contains a synthesis of recent works by distinguished archaeologists and historians in their field, illuminating extensive research in the Southern Gaul and on the territory of the Greek city of Marseille.
Investigating the occupation of Massalia territory before the foundation of the Greek city to the Roman period, these findings provide an overview of the diverse issues behind the circulations between Greeks from Phocaea and Celtic populations. This reflection on a key region of the Euro-Mediterranean space rests on the analysis of archaeological findings, including: urban excavations, spatial studies, analysis of necropolis, submarine remains, paleo-environmental data, and reviewing the ancient literary documentation. These new and innovative findings in Greek Marseille and Mediterranean Celtic Region will be of particular interest to both students and scholars exploring the political, economic and cultural fields of relationships between the Greek migrants and the populations they started to meet at the end of the seventh century BC.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Introduction (Sophie Bouffier / Dominique Garcia)
• 1. The Littorals in Southern Gaul: A State of the Issue (Philippe Leveau)
• 2. Greeks, Celts and Ligurians in South-East Gaul: Ethnicity and Archaeology (Sophie Bouffier / Dominique Garcia)
• 3. Territorial Variations: Natives and Greeks in the Mediterranean Celtic Region (Dominique Garcia / Sophie Bouffier)
• 4. The Exchanges on the Coastline of Southern Gaul in the First Iron Age: From the Hellenisation Concept to That of Mediterraneisation (Dominique Garcia / Jean-Christophe Sourisseau)
• 5. The Sources of Greek Marseille and of Its Territory: The Ethnica of Stephanus of Byzantium and the Lexicographical Mentions (Marc Bouiron)
• 6. Territories of the Massaliot Identity: Conservatism or Political and Moral Loosening? (Sophie Bouffier / Emmanuèle Caire)
• 7. Marseille: An Ionian City in the Greek West (Henri Tréziny)
• 8. At the Frontiers of Massalian Territory: Greek and Indigenous Rhythms from the Seventh to Second Century BC (Loup Bernard, Sophie Bouffier / Delphine Isoardi)
• 9. The Cults of Greek Marseille (Antoine Hermary)
• 10. The Territories In-between: Marseille, Rome and the Gauls (Rachel Feig Vishnia)
• 11. Marseille Territories of Exchanges (Marie-Brigitte Carre)
• 12. Greek Marseille and the Gauls of the South: Quite Different Funeral Practices (Fifth–Second Centuries BC) (Bernard Dedet)
• 13. Land Allotment and Ancient Vineyards around Marseille (Philippe Boissinot)
• 14. The Greco-Massaliot Shipwrecks in the Place Jules-Verne in Marseilles and the Evolution of Greek Ship Construction from the Sixth to the Fourth Century BC (Patrice Pomey)
• 15. Protohistoric Mediterranean Gaul as a Middle Ground (Michel Bats)
• Contributors