A Short History of the Phoenicians

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Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Phoenicia in all its paradoxical complexity. Viewed in antiquity as sage scribes and intrepid mariners who pushed back the boundaries of the known world, and as skilled engineers who built monumental harbour cities like Tyre and Sidon, the Phoenicians were also considered (especially by their rivals, the Romans) to be profiteers cruelly trading in human lives. The author shows them above all to have been masters of the sea: this was a civilization that circumnavigated Africa two thousand years before Vasco da Gama did it in 1498.

The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. In this revised and updated edition, Woolmer takes stock of recent historiographical developments in the field, bringing the present edition up to speed with contemporary understanding.

Über den Autor

Mark Woolmer

Zusammenfassung

Updated with current historiography

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
Timeline
Introduction
1. Historical Overview
2. Government and Society
3. Religion
4. Art and Material Culture
5. Overseas Expansion
Epilogue
Further Reading
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781350153929
ISBN-10:	1350153923
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Woolmer, Mark
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	214 x 136 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Woolmer
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.10.2021
Gewicht:	0,352 kg

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