Name: A Short History of the Phoenicians: Revised Edition (en Inglés)
Price: 29.30 USD
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Author: Woolmer, Mark
ISBN: 9781350153929

portada A Short History of the Phoenicians: Revised Edition (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mark Woolmer

Editorial

Bloomsbury Academic

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.8 x 14.1 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781350153929

N° edición

0002

Categorías

Grecia
Antigua grecia
Historia antigua
Historia de europa
Historia social y cultural

A Short History of the Phoenicians: Revised Edition (en Inglés)

Mark Woolmer (Autor) · Bloomsbury Academic · Tapa Blanda

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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.