Short histories 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.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 oktober 2021

Aantal pagina's: 272

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Mark Woolmer

Tweede Auteur: Glenn E. Markoe

Co Auteur: Markoe Glenn

Hoofduitgeverij: Bloomsbury Academic

Editie: 2

Product breedte: 138 mm

Product hoogte: 13.8 cm

Product lengte: 216 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 139 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 24 mm

Verpakking lengte: 215 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 597 g

EAN: 9781350153929

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