1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0076110

Autore

Nichols, Peter

Titolo

Il Piemonte visto da un inglese / Peter Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

137 p. : 12 tav. ; 22 cm

Edizione

[Torino : AEDA]

Descrizione fisica

Ed. italiana a cura di Alfonso Di Nola e Carlo Moriondo.

Disciplina

945.1

Soggetti

Piemonte - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511618903321

Autore

Woolmer Mark

Titolo

A short history of the Phoenicians / / Mark Woolmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : I. B. Tauris, , 2019

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

1-350-98518-X

1-78673-217-3

1-78672-217-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs

Collana

I.B. Tauris short histories

Disciplina

939.4/4

Soggetti

Phoenicians - History

Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Electronic books.

Phoenicia Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Historical overview -- Government and society -- Religion -- Art and material culture -- Overseas expansion -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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.