The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean Context

Jens A. Krasilnikoff, Benedict Lowe, Jens A. Krasilnikoff, Benedict Lowe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032470900
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781003804925
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West.

Contributions cover the Phocaean settlement at Emporion and its relationship with the indigenous hinterland, the government of the Greek communities, Greek settlement and trade at Málaga, the Greek settlement of Santa Pola, Greek trade in Southern France and Eastern Spain, the implications of imported Attic pottery in the fifth and fourth centuries BC and the conception of Iberia in the eyes of the Greeks. The Iberian Peninsula invites discussion of key notions of ethnic identity, the use of code-switching, cultural geography and the role of society in generating, developing and exploiting social memory in a changing world. The contributions in this volume provide a variety of responses and interpretations of the Greek presence, reflecting the extent of this debate and offering different approaches in order to better understand the range of evidence from the Iberian Peninsula.

The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean Context develops current research on the Greek presence, presenting diverse opinions and new interpretations that are of interest not only to scholars studying the Iberian Peninsula and Greek settlement but also students of identity, cultural geography and colonisation more widely, as well as the applicability of these concepts to the historical record.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Iberia and the Greek world: What role for the Greeks in Iberia?
• 2 Exchanges between the Greek world and the Iberian Peninsula from the eighth to the fourth century BC
• 3 The merchants of Emporion: Selling (and being) Greek in the Iberian market
• 4 Some experiential observations on trading, farming and sharing of place in 6th to 2nd century BC Emporion
• 5 Footprints in the sea: Strabo's τρία πολίχνια Μασσαλιωτῶν and the Greeks in the Levant
• 6 Iberian or Greek?: Current debate on the coastal settlement of La Picola (Santa Pola, Alicante)
• 7 The Greeks and the Bay of Málaga: Five centuries of relationships and the trade in the Phoenician West
• 8 Images in motion: Fourth century BC Athenian pottery from the Iberian Peninsula: Workshops and iconography
• 9 Piracy and the Western Greek experience
• 10 Dionysius I of Syracuse and the spatial order of rule by one: The early 4th century Syracusan Arché as cultural contact zone and food system
• 11 Cultural memory and cultural change in Hellenistic and Roman Magna Graecia
• 12 Assessing identities in culturally diverse archaeological contexts: Funerary case studies from Magna Graecia
• Index