Culture Contact in Southern Mediterranean France 7th to 2nd Centuries BC

This study examines interactions between Gallic Celts and the Mediterranean world, exploring and critiquing themes and concepts of Hellenization and Romanization. It focuses in particular on Massila, in what usually seen as the region of greatest Hellenic influence in Gaul, and investigates trade, burial, urbanism, art and religion to analyse the progress and processes of acculturation. Reyman concludes that "the Southern Gallic Celts do not seem to have absorbed Classical beliefs even after prolongued contact. Istead new forms techniques and methods were used to express their own traditional beliefs and social structure, sometimes leading to the demonstration of a new syncretism - the Gallo-Greeks".