List Of Illustrations Note on the Contributors Introduction: Unboxing the Gift. Diplomatic Presents in their Cultural Contexts, Eduardo Sánchez Moreno and Enrique García Riaza I. A Background for Gifts in Action: Gracing Gods, Kings and Cities 2. Diplomatic Gifts in the Biblical Context of the Sixth to Fourth Ceturies B.C. A Systematic Study of Deuteronomistic History (Joshua - 2 Kings), Francesc Ramis Darder 3. Greek Cities and Diplomatic Gifts in the Classical Period, Dominique Lenfant 4. Gifts for the Gods and Keimelia.
Some Reflections on Arms as Diplomatic Gifts in the Greek World, María del Mar Gabaldón Martínez II. From Asia Minor to Lusitania: The Multiple Use of Gifts in an Interconnected World 5 . Crowns to Rome: Honours, Gifts and Hellenistic Diplomacy, Andrew Erskine 6. The Romans and Gifts from the Greeks: The Story of an Ostentatious Rejection, Nathalie Barrandon, Anthony-Marc Sanz and Enrique García Riaza 7. Gift, Debt, Anxiety in Late Hellenistic Times. On the Cautiousness and Attitudes of Achaeans, Macedonians and Bastarnae Towards Diplomatic Presents, Miguel Esteban Payno and Gerard Ventós Rodríguez 8. Buying Goodwill, Granting Rewards: The Roman Headquarters as a Space of Diplomatic Interaction, Borja Vertedor Ballesteros 9. From Presents to Bribes: Symbolic and Political Evolution of the Diplomatic Gift in Relations between Romans and Numidians, Esther Sánchez Medina and Gabriel Rosselló Calafell 10.
Torques, Horses, and Gold: Approaching Diplomatic Gifts in Gaul, Alberto Pérez Rubio 11. Do ut des. Liberating Hostages and Offering Gifts on the Hispanian Front in the Second Punic War, Eduardo Sánchez Moreno and Jorge García Cardiel 12. Gold for the Romans. Booty, Gifts, and Bribes during the Roman Conquest of the Western Iberian Peninsula, Manuel Salinas de Frías 13. Bonding Gifts. Material Exchange and Political Alliance during the Sertorian War, David García Domínguez and Diego Suárez Martínez Epilogue: Gifts at the Edges of the World: Diplomatic Exchanges in the Roman West and Early Colonial Chile, Tomás Aguilera Durán.