Short History of the Phoenicians, A: Revised Edition - Couverture souple

Woolmer, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350153923 ISBN 13 : 9781350153929

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Woolmer is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350153923
• ISBN 13: 9781350153929
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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