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Roman Turdetania
Romanization, Identity and Socio-Cultural Interaction in the South of the Iberian Peninsula between the 4th and 1st centuries BCE
Series: - Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean, Volume: 3
Editor:
Roman Turdetania makes use of the literary and archeological sources to provide an updated state of knowledge from a postcolonial approach about the socio-cultural interaction processes and the subsequent romanisation of the populations in the southern Iberian Peninsula from the 4th to the 1st centuries BCE. The resulting communities shaped a new identity, hybrid and converging, resulting from the previous Phoenician–Punic substrate vigorously coexisting with the new Hellenistic-Roman imprint.
Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti is professor of ancient history at the University of Malaga. He has worked in several lines of research: ancient geographical thought, Iberian geography, ancient ethnic identities in Hispania – in particular concerning Turdetania- and more specifically, concrete studies on authors, such as Polybius and Strabo. Contributors are: Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar, Encarnación Castro Páez, Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti, Eduardo Ferrer Albelda, Francisco José García Fernández, Enrique García Vargas, Francisco Machuca Prieto, Bartolomé Mora Serrano, Pierre Moret, Ruth Pliego Vázquez.
"Strabo famously praised the southern Spanish region of Turdetania as the most civilized of Iberia, a place where abundant resources, trade networks, and a well-developed urban tradition allowed quick integration into Rome’s growing empire (3.2.1–15). This perception has long permeated scholarship, but it is one that has been gradually reassessed in a growing corpus of Spanish work. This new edited volume presents these fresh perspectives on the romanization of Turdetania. Edited by Cruz Andreotti (University of Málaga) with contributions by nine other historians and archaeologists, the book offers nuanced views of the sociocultural transformation of the region following Roman conquest. It is the third book in Brill’s new series, Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean, which provides “a platform for cross-regional, multidisciplinary and longue durée approaches to the cultural history of the Mediterranean.” The volume takes this mandate to heart, interweaving textual, numismatic, and archaeological evidence from the period between the fourth and first centuries BCE." Linda R. Gosner,
American Journal of Archaeology, January 2020 (124.1) "Cette publication marque l’aboutissement de plusieurs années de recherche, et chacune des contributions qui le composent se fonde sur une documentation riche et variée (données archéologiques, analyses numismatiques, études philologiques et historiques). [...] Roman Turdatenia représente néanmoins une véritable mine d’informations et de perspectives d’études. L’ouvrage offre également au lecteur une synthèse pointue sur l’actualité des recherches historiques relatives à la période républicaine en Ibérie. En définitive, il s’agit à n’en pas douter d’une référence essentielle, tant pour l’étudiant(e) à un stade avancé dans son cursus que pour le chercheur confirmé." Max Luaces,
PALLAS, 112, 2020, PP. 309-330.
Preface: Spanish Turdetania, a Case Study for Shared Identities
Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Strabo and the Invention of Turdetania
Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti 2 Historians vs. Geographers: Divergent Uses of the Ethnic Name Turdetania in the Greek and Roman Tradition
Pierre Moret 3 The City as a Structural Element in Turdetanian Identity in the Work of Strabo
Encarnación Castro- Páez 4 Deconstructing ‘Turdetanian Culture’: Identities, Territories and Archaeology
Francisco José García Fernández 5 Ethnic and Cultural Identity among Punic Communities in Iberia
Eduardo Ferrer Albelda 6 Carthaginians in Turdetania: Carthaginian Presence in Iberia before 237
BCE
Ruth Pliego Vázquez 7 Tyrian Connections: Evolving Identities in the Punic West
Manuel Álvarez Martí- Aguilar 8 Unraveling the Western Phoenicians under Roman Rule: Identity, Heterogeneity and Dynamic Boundaries
Francisco Machuca Prieto 9 Across the Looking Glass: Ethno- Cultural Identities in Southern Hispania through Coinage
Bartolomé Mora Serrano 10 The Economy and Romanization of Hispania Ulterior (125– 25
BCE
): The Role of the Italians
Enrique García Vargas 11 Epilogue: A New Paradigm for Romanization?
Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti Bibliography Index of Geographical Names Index Locorum Index of Personal or Ethnics Names, and Conceptual Terms
Graduated and PhD students, academicians, specialists and all interested in Roman History, provinces and imperialism, as well as in phenomena of cultural interaction and aculturation from a postcolonial perspective.