Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 August 2016
- ISBN 9780199672745
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages390 pages
- Size 229x144x23 mm
- Weight 656 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is about the earliest historical civilization in the western Mediterranean, known as "Tartessos." Tartessos was a literate, sophisticated, urban culture in southwestern Iberia. This book presents the most comprehensive, coherent and theoretically up-to-date overview of the discovery, sources, and debates surrounding this puzzling culture
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This is the first book in English about the earliest historical civilization in the western Mediterranean, known as "Tartessos."
Endowed with extraordinary wealth in metals and strategically positioned between the Atlantic and Mediterranean trading routes at the time of Greek and Phoenician colonial expansion, Tartessos flourished in the eight-seventh centuries BCE. Tartessos became a literate, sophisticated, urban culture in southwestern Iberia (today's Spain and Portugal), enriched by commercial contacts with the Aegean and the Levant since at least the ninth century. In its material culture (architecture, grave goods, sanctuaries, plastic arts), we see how native elements combined with imported "orientalizing" innovations introduced by the Phoenicians. Historians of the rank of Herodotos and Livy, geographers such as Strabo and Pliny, Greek and Punic periploi and perhaps even Phoenician and Hebrew texts, testify to the power, wealth, and prominence of this westernmost Mediterranean civilization.
Archaeologists, in turn, have demonstrated the existence of a fascinating complex society with both strong local roots and international flare. Yet for still-mysterious reasons, Tartessos did not attain a "Classical" period like its peer emerging cultures did at the same time (Etruscans, Romans, Greeks).
This book combines the expertise of its two authors in archaeology, philology, and cultural history to present a comprehensive, coherent, theoretically up-to-date, and informative overview of the discovery, sources, and debates surrounding this puzzling culture of ancient Iberia and its complex hybrid identity vis-?-vis the western Phoenicians. This book will be of great interest to students of the classics, archaeology and ancient history, Phoenician-Punic studies, colonization and cultural contact.
Tartessos is widely written in Spanish, but there has been a paucity of material in English. The remedy is to hand in Sebastián Celestino and Carolina López-Ruiz's volume, born in Columbus, Ohio... which provides the first synthesis in English on Tartessos (and a large stretch south-western Iberia) and relations with the Phoneticians, with a prime focus on the 8th-6th centuries BC. One author is an archaeologist, the other specialises in written sources; a happy blend.
Table of Contents:
In search of Tartessos
Tartessos in Greek Geography and Historiography
Tartessos through Carthaginian and Roman Lenses
The Far West in Mythological and Biblical Sources
Early Cross-Cultural Contacts
Human and Industrial Landscapes
Religious Spaces and Ritual Life
Art and Technology in Tartessos
Epilogue: Tartessic questions
Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia
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