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Phoenicia : episodes and anecdotes from the ancient Mediterranean /
Phoenicia has long been known as the homeland of the Mediterranean seafarers who gave the Greeks their alphabet. But along with this fairly well-known reality, many mysteries remain, in part because the record of the coastal cities and regions that the people of Phoenicia inhabited is fragmentary an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Winona Lake, Indiana :
Eisenbrauns,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Preface; Abbreviations; General; Reference Works; Introduction; Canaan in the Eleventh and Tenth Centuries b.c.e.: The Origin of the Phoenicians; The Canaanites: The Alphabet, Literature, and Literacy; Canaan: The Land and the People, the Townships and Territories; Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos; The Phoenician City-States Receive and Transmit Knowledge: The Ninth Century b.c.e.; The Inland Cities in Relation to the City-States; Phoenicia, Syria, and Anatolia: The Effects of National States on the City-States.
- Cyprus and the West: The Effects of Phoenician Travel WestwardThe Phoenician Discovery of the Mediterranean World: A Result of the Pax Assyriaca in the Eighth Century b.c.e.; The Mainland Phoenician Cities: Sidon and the Neo-Assyrian Empire; The Mainland Phoenician Cities: Tyre and the Neo-Assyrian Empire; The Western Mediterranean; Malta; Italy; Carthage; Sicily; Sardinia; Spain; Conclusion: The Phoenicians in the Mediterranean; The World of Tyre in the Seventh Century b.c.e.; Tyre and Its Worldwide Economy; Mainland Phoenicia in "Cooperation with Assyria."
- Tyre in the Western MediterraneanConclusion; The Sixth-Century Phoenician World Becomes a Differentiated Semitic and European World; Tyre between the Babylonians and the Egyptians; Sidon and the Dynasty of Eshmun azor; The Southern Mainland between Phoenicia and Arabia; The Syrian Coast: Influenced by Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, and Persia; Cyprus: Cypriot Culture Begins to Come into Its Own; The Western Mediterranean Becomes Increasingly Carthaginian; Conclusion; The Carthaginian World of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries b.c.e.: Between the Persians and the Greeks.
- Byblos: The Šiptiba al Dynasty ContinuesTyre and Vicinity on the Island: From a Monarchy to a Republic; The Tyrian Mainland: In the Path of Persians, Greeks, and Egyptians; Sidon: What We Know from Art, Religion, and Coins; The Northern Coastal Towns: Common Sense and Syrian Influence; Cyprus and Its Small Kingdoms; Egypt Is Influenced by the Greeks and Cypriots; Malta Remains Traditional; Sicily Is Carthaginian; Sardinia between Carthage and Rome; Conclusion; Index of Authors; Index of Scripture; Index of Geographical Names.