The Greeks West of the Rhone (F). Genesis, Evolution and End of a Greek Area

Daniela Ugolini (1)

1 CCJ - Centre Camille Jullian - Histoire et archéologie de la Méditerranée et de l'Afrique du Nord de la protohistoire à la fin de l'Antiquité

Researches of the last fifty years in the western South of France brought new evidences about the pre-colonial phase, the discovery of the Greek city of Béziers (Béziers I)-one of the two Rhòde of the sources-, considerable advances on the Greek Agde (Agàthe) and on native sites. They shed light on why and how Greek colonization took root and, thereafter, on a different colonial functioning than envisaged before, in which the Dorian component-seemingly extended to the Rhòde of Iberia-preceded the Phocean one and counterbalanced the Marseille's role for several centuries.

Mots clés: Agde; Béziers; bronze objects; colonization; Dorians; Empòrion; Ionians; Iron Age; Marseille; Phocaeans; Rhòde; Sicily; trade

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Daniela Ugolini. The Greeks West of the Rhone (F). Genesis, Evolution and End of a Greek Area. Journal of Greek Archaeology, 2018, 3, pp.203 - 243. ⟨hal-01923137⟩