The four volumes of the Gerión published between 2012 and 2015 contain fifty-six articles and dozens of reviews. The majority of the articles and all of the reviews are in Spanish, but there are some Italian, French and English articles, too. In 2015 a special issue was also published, in memory of the late Professor Fernando López Pardo, containing his selected articles especially on Phoenician culture and trade edited by Jorge García Cardiel. This journal-launched in 1983-is devoted to the study of Ancient History in general with emphasized attention to various adjunct sciences, as archaeology, epigraphy, philology and so on. According to this determination, the vast majority of the articles concentrates on 'classical', Greek and Latin antiquity, 1 but there are refreshing exceptions in age, place and topics as well: e.g. González Salazar (2013, 15-50) analyses the way the Hittites treated their civil and warrior captives during the second half of the second millennium BC; Blázquez Martínez (2012, 293-342) examines the connection-in various aspects-between Muhammad and the Syrian monks; Velázquez Muñoz (2013, 147-178) presents an article about the route and especially the stations of the Royal Road between Persepolis and Susa; Lasala Navarro (2013, 363-383) studies the Byzantine Empress Theodora's public and political image by the help of Procopius; Biondi (2013, 179-200) investigates the early Greek philosophy through the examination of Thales' figure in the later literature (Herodotus etc.). Considering that the journal is a Spanish one, the attention devoted to topics related to the wider Iberian past-i.e. not only the Romans and the Pre-Roman culture in the territory of modern Spain, but the Phoenicians, Carthage and the colonization process-is not surprising. Accordingly, a curious reader can find articles about the
