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Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the
Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long
before the rise of the Greeks. Imagine you are a traveler sailing
to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would
notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer
goods, and gods from Gibraltar to Tyre. This was not the Greek
world—it was the Phoenician. Based in Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and
other cities along the coast of present-day Lebanon, the
Phoenicians spread out across the Mediterranean building posts,
towns, and ports. Propelled by technological advancements of a kind
unseen since the Neolithic revolution, Phoenicians knit together
diverse Mediterranean societies, fostering a literate and
sophisticated urban elite sharing common cultural, economic, and
aesthetic modes. The Phoenician imprint on the Mediterranean lasted
nearly a thousand years, beginning in the Early Iron Age. Following
the trail of the Phoenicians from the Levant to the Atlantic coast
of Iberia, Carolina López-Ruiz offers the first comprehensive
study of the cultural exchange that transformed the Mediterranean
in the eighth and seventh centuries BC. Greeks, Etruscans,
Sardinians, Iberians, and others adopted a Levantine-inflected way
of life, as they aspired to emulate Near Eastern civilizations.
López-Ruiz explores these many inheritances, from sphinxes and
hieratic statues to ivories, metalwork, volute capitals,
inscriptions, and Ashtart iconography. Meticulously documented and
boldly argued, Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean
revises the Hellenocentric model of the ancient world and restores
from obscurity the true role of Near Eastern societies in the
history of early civilizations.
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