1: In search of Tartessos
2: Tartessos in Greek Geography and Historiography
3: Tartessos through Carthaginian and Roman Lenses
4: The Far West in Mythological and Biblical Sources
5: Early Cross-Cultural Contacts
6: Human and Industrial Landscapes
7: Religious Spaces and Ritual Life
8: Art and Technology in Tartessos
Epilogue: Tartessic questions
Sebastián Celestino is a full time researcher at the CSIC (Spain)
and the Director of the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida
(Badajoz). He has been active as a field archaeologist for decades
and has directed, among others, the excavations of Cancho Roano. He
has published abundantly on Iberian porto-history and archaeology,
and Tartessos in particular. Among his books are Cancho Roano
(2001, Madrid), Estelas de guerrero y estelas diademadas: la
precolonización y la formación del mundo tartésico (2001,
Barcelona), and Tarteso: Un viaje a los confines del mundo antiguo
(Trebled, 2014), and the coedited volumes on El período
orientalizante (2 vols., 2005, Mérida)
and Contacto cultural entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico (siglos
XII-VIII and). La precolonización a debate (2008, Madrid). Carolina
López-Ruiz is Associate Professor of Classics at The Ohio State
University in Columbus, Ohio. She has published articles on Greek
and Near Eastern literatures and mythology and topics related to
the Phoenician presence in the western Mediterranean. She is the
co-editor of Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician,
Greek, and
Indigenous Relations (2009, Chicago, with Michael Dietler) and the
author of When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near
East (2010, Cambridge, MA). Her recently edited book Gods, Heroes,
and Monsters: A Sourcebook of
Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in Translation (Oxford 2014)
challenges the traditional view of the "classics" by situating
Greek and Roman mythology in its broader Mediterranean context. She
is the co-editor (with Brian Doak) of the Oxford Handbook of the
Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean (in preparation).
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.
*Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Llandridnod Wells, UK, Ancient West &
East*
this is an excellent volume
*Antiquity*
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