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A Short History of the Phoenicians: Short Histories

Autor Mark Woolmer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2019
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. 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350130265
ISBN-10: 1350130265
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 21 bw integrated, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Short Histories

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Mark Woolmer is Assistant Principal of Collingwood College and a Teaching Associate in Ancient History at Durham University. A leading authority on the subject, he has discussed the Phoenicians on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time and is The author of Ancient Phoenicia: An Introduction (2011).

Caracteristici

Explores the rich complexity of the Phoenicians through detailing maritime prowess, sage scholarly wisdom and inhumane tendencies

Cuprins

List of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrefaceTimelineIntroduction1. Historical Overview2. Government and Society3. Religion4. Art and Material Culture5. Overseas ExpansionEpilogueFurther ReadingNotesIndex

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Extremely exciting - beautifully designed intellectually.