Quote Originally Posted by Danest
Hmm, looking good. But... have historians typically categorized Iberians as barbarians? I can't tell just from looking, so I'm unsure (not that the distinction is really all that important, I suppose).
Barbarian is any foreign culture to Greek-Roman world, specially a non-Mediterranean culture. Not a specific form of culture. From that point of view, anyone not belonging to their culture was a barbarian in the eyes of the Greek and Roman.

I must insist: 'barbarian' does not mean 'uncivilized', but 'strange to our uses and laws'.

If you refer to some kind of uncivilized and/or non-Mediterranean culture, then I must remind you that there were many different cultures in the Iberian Peninsula. From that point of view, the southeast Iberians -the ones mainly represented in this preview- were anything but 'barbarian'. They belonged to an ancient civilization with its own identity, but heavily influenced by centuries of constant interaction with the main Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient World. A Greek or Carthaginian should feel really comfortable among them.

The Iberians from the west, inner and north lands were another matter... you'll see...