The History of Phoenicia
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
193704081X
ISBN-13
9781937040819
Publisher
Lockwood Press
Imprint
Lockwood Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2018
Print length
324 Pages
Weight
504 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 23.00 x 2.40 cms
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The Phoenicians, celebrated navigators who invented the alphabet, have no published work telling their long, turbulent and sometimes mythical history. Josette Elayi, a French academic specialising in Phoenicia, covers its rich history from origins to the conquest by Alexander the Great which ended its independence.
The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to have left so few written traces of their existence. Their literature, recorded on papyrus, has disappeared. And yet this civilization fired the imagination of its contemporaries--the Jews in particular--inspiring terror among the Romans and Greeks, who depicted them as a cruel people who practiced human sacrifice. Their clients were the pharaohs and the Assyrians, their ships criss-crossed the Mediterranean, laden with the luxuries of the day such as wine, oil, grain, and mineral ore. Buried beneath the modern cities of Lebanon, and a few of Syria and Israel, ancient Phoenicia has resuscitated in this volume.
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