1st Edition

The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean Context

Edited By Jens A. Krasilnikoff, Benedict Lowe Copyright 2024
276 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Iberia and the Greek World: What Role for the Greeks in Iberia?

Adolfo J. Domínguez Monedero

2. Exchanges between the Greek World and the Iberian Peninsula from the Eighth to the Fourth Century BC

Pierre Rouillard

3. The Merchants of Emporion: Selling (and Being) Greek in the Iberian Market

Raymond Capra

4. Some Experiential Observations on Trading, Farming and Sharing of Place in 6th to 2nd Century BC Emporion

Jens A. Krasilnikoff

5. Footprints in the Sea: Strabo’s Τρία Πολίχνια Μασσαλιωτῶν and the Greeks in the Levant

Benedict Lowe

6. Iberian Or Greek?: Current Debate on the Coastal Settlement of La Picola (Santa Pola, Alicante)

Pierre Moret

7. The Greeks and the Bay of Málaga: Five Centuries of Relationships and the Trade in the Phoenician West

Eduardo García Alfonso

8. Images in Motion: Fourth Century BC Athenian Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula: Workshops and Iconography

Carmen Sánchez Fernández and Diana Rodríguez Pérez

9. Piracy and the Western Greek Experience

Joshua R. Hall

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

Jens A. Krasilnikoff

11. Cultural Memory and Cultural Change in Hellenistic and Roman Magna Graecia

Kathryn Lomas

12. Assessing Identities in Culturally Diverse Archaeological Contexts: Funerary Case Studies from Magna Graecia

Jane Hjarl Petersen

Biography

Jens A. Krasilnikoff is Associate Professor in Greek and Hellenistic history at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. He recently published articles on the rural economy of Classical Greece and co-edited volumes on Greek religion and the cultural history of Alexandria.

Benedict Lowe is Professor of History at the University of North Alabama. He is the author of Roman Iberia: Economy, Society and Empire, and a forthcoming history of Cádiz.

"The volume is a welcome addition to the study of the Greek presence in the central and western Mediterranean, and it fits current trends that emphasise local agency, exchange and negotiation over cultural diffusion and colonial dynamics. It also synthesises scholarship that is largely unavailable in English."The Classical Review