Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: Spheres of Interaction (Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World)

Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Rejecting the separation into two distinct disciplines for the study of the Mediterranean world and the barbarian communities of northern Europe, this book looks at the systems at work in society – economic strategies, the nature of exchange and trade, the relationships between a civilised core and its periphery – and, more importantly, by the changing trajectories of the socio-economic systems. It also examines how much the physical nature of Western Europe affected these systems, as contacts and trade moved through some regions but were obstructed in others. Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. It looks at the systems at work in society – economic strategies, the nature of exchange and trade, the relationships between a civilised core and its periphery. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Original Title Page 6 Original Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Table of Contents 10 List of Illustrations 12 Preface 14 1 Themes and Approaches 16 2 The Greek Adventure: 600–400 BC 27 Greek and Phoenician Colonization in the Western Mediterranean 28 The Port of Massalia 34 The Expansion of Etruscan Influence 38 Massalia and the Barbarians of the North 39 Social Transformation in Barbarian Europe in the Fifth Century BC 48 The Celtic Migrations 51 3 The Southern Shores of Gaul 53 The Native Towns of Southern Gaul 53 Inland Trading Centres of the Rhône Axis 64 The Western Trading Axis 66 The Romans and Southern Gaul 68 4 Roman Estates and Entrepreneurs 74 Social Change in Italy 74 The Ager Cosanus 80 Roman Trade with Southern Gaul 86 Production and Consumption in Late Republican Italy 90 Slaves 92 The Dynamics of the Late Republican Economy 93 5 Gaul: Continuity and Change 125–59 BC 95 Gaul: Historical Outline 125–59 BC 95 The Western Trading System 96 The Northern Trading System 101 Gaulish Society 102 Social Change in Central Gaul 107 The Gaulish and British Periphery 113 The Belgae of Northern Gaul 119 6 The Battle for Gaul: 58–50 BC 121 Julius Caesar 121 Caesar's Campaigns in Gaul 123 Ethnic Movements at the Time of the Conquest 129 Allegiances 132 Gaulish Leadership 135 The Fate of the Conquered Gauls 138 7 The Creation of the Three Gauls 140 The Organization of Gaul: 50–12 BC 140 The German Frontier 143 Social and Economic Change in Gaul 144 Economic Intensification 147 Long-Distance Trade 152 8 Progress Through Britain 160 Prehistoric Trade Patterns 160 The Re-Invigoration of Long Distance Trade 162 Britain After Caesar 164 The Roman Conquest 173 The Early Romanization of the South-East 174 Northern Britain 176 Into Scotland 178 Across the Celtic Sea 184 9 Beyond the Rhine 186 The Military Situation and the German Campaigns 186 Germanic Society 189 Roman Interaction with Free Germany 192 Socio-Economic Zones in Germany 199 The Late Second Century 201 Late Roman Economic Reformations 204 The Late Third Century and After 206 10 Retrospect 208 Notes 217 Bibliography 231 Index 247 Greek,colonisation;,Roman,imperial,expansion;,Imperial,peripheries;,Romans,and,barbarians Greek colonisation,Roman imperial expansion,Imperial peripheries,Romans and barbarians