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Greek Trade in Iberia: The Extent of Interaction
Author(s) -
Cabrera Paloma
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0092.00058
Subject(s) - greeks , proposition , transformative learning , modern greek , action (physics) , history , sociology , ancient history , classics , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , pedagogy
Traditional research has looked at Greek trade in Iberia from a diffusionist standpoint: the Greeks would have been the major agents of cultural change. It was still accepted that this constituted a direct, inevitable, substantial and transformative action on an eminently receptive and passive society. In this paper we question the true extent and weight of Greek trade in the cultural transformations which occurred in Iberia during the 6th to 4th centuries BC. Our proposition in this paper is to define and determine the extent of the process of interaction brought about by Greek trade. In our opinion, there was never absolutely decisive Greek‐Iberian interaction in the development process: it was led by internal forces.