Rome and the north-western Mediterranean : integration and connectivity c.150-70 BC / edited by Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, Jordi Principal, and Mike Dobson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ñaco del Hoyo, Toni, editor.

Principal-Ponce, Jordi, editor.

Dobson, Mike (Michael J.), editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Territorial expansion.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.

Mediterranean Region.

Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome--Territorial expansion.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

xiv, 278 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 29 x 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2022.

Summary:

To date, Rome's intervention to the West from the mid-second century BC has not really been looked at with any sense of overview. Instead, there has been an unconnected series of micro-regional studies looking at particular areas, from the river Ebro in Spain round to Italy on the land front, and from the Balearic Islands to Corsica, Sardinia and even Sicily as regards the seaborne aspect. In contrast, the aim of this volume is to push the historical and archaeological debates about Rome's expansion beyond these traditional geographical boundaries and the discipline-based previous research. The entire north-western Mediterranean is treated as a micro-region and is addressed using various interdisciplinary approaches. The result is to provide an innovative and comprehensive overview of the north-western Mediterranean in a period of historical crossroads, aided particularly by focusing on the connectivity and integration within this region as two interrelated issues. While Republican Rome enforced itself as an expansive power towards the West, all sorts of polities, military operations and individuals also played a significant role in creating interconnectivity and integration of the north-western Mediterranean into a new hybrid reality. In order to uncover such processes of hybridisation, contributors to this volume were encouraged to focus on the historical, archaeological and numismatic material from several areas within the region, and to incorporate aspects of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to address the region's military, political, social and economic interconnections with Italy, Rome and each other within the overall period.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Rome and the Western Mediterranean (150-70 BC): Empire and War / Francois Cadiou

2. Non-Roman Coins in Italy: The Influence of Western Connections (3rd

1st Centuries BC) / Marleen K. Termeer

3. Military Connectivity between Romans and Non-Romans in the West / Fernando Quesada Sanz

4. Transactions, Trading Practices and Structures in the Western Mediterranean: The Impact of Roman Hegemony / Thibaud Poigt

5. Ligurians, Gatekeepers of the West 197

118 BC / Gerard Cabezas-Guzman

HISPANIA CITERIOR AND TRANSALPINE GAUL

6. Initial Indications of a Roman Presence East of the Pyrenees: A Possible Transition Zone between Gaul and Iberia in the Late 3rd and Early 2nd Centuries BC / Jerome Benezet

7. Numantia. A Green and Pleasant Land. Not Once the Romans Arrived! / Mike Dobson

8. Trading Networks in Transalpine Gaul before and after the Conquest of 125 BC / Corinne Sanchez

9. Late Iron Age Iberians from Coastal North-Eastern Hispania and Rome / Jordi Vivo

10. Late Iron Age Iberians and Rome in the Segre Valley (North-East Hispania): Transformation and Integration / Ignasi Garces Estallo

11. Tolosa Tectosagum: A Wide-Ranging Connectivity Hub between Transalpine Gaul, Aquitania and Hispania Citerior / Pierre Moret

12. Coinage from North-East Hispania Citerior and Rome, c. 150

70 BC / Marta Campo

13. A Fistful of Denarii. Coinage, Conquest and Connectivity in Southern Gaul (c. 150

c. 70 BC) / Charles Parisot-Sillon

SEABORNE CONNECTIVITY

14. Shipwrecks and Trade in the North-Western Mediterranean during the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC: The Sea as an Agent of Connectivity / Franca Cibecchini

15. Emporion and its Port during the 2nd Century BC / Elisa Hernandez

16. Exploring the `Cultural Revolution' in Ancient Sicily between Hellenisation and Romanisation: A Reassessment / Daniele Malfitana

17. Between Carthage and Rome: Artisans, Businessmen and Colonists in Roman Republican Sardinia (150

50 BC) / Antonio Ibba

18. Rome and the Political Dimension of Piracy in the North-Western Mediterranean / Alfonso Alvarez-Ossorio Rivas

19. Between Traders and Pirates. Connectivity in the Balearic Islands from the Second Punic War to the Mid-1st Century BC / Bartomeu Vallori-Marquez

20. Rome and the North-Western Mediterranean: Ports-of-Call and Sea Routes / Gerard R. Ventos

EPILOGUE

21. The Roman and Italian Economic Diaspora as a Factor of Connectivity between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean, 150

70 BC / Michalis Karambinis

22. A Message in a Bottle Crossing the North-Western Mediterranean / Toni Naco del Hoyo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781789257175

1789257174

OCLC:

1240415844

Publisher Number:

99992409579