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A Short History of the Phoenicians - Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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A Short History of the Phoenicians - Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Short Histories
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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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