02890nam 2200553 450 991081155640332120200514202323.01-350-98518-X1-78673-217-31-78672-217-810.5040/9781350985186(CKB)3710000001405691(MiAaPQ)EBC4877996(OCoLC)1128170706(CaBNVSL)mat50985186(CaBNVSL)9781350985186(UkLoBP)9781350985186(EXLCZ)99371000000140569120191118d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierA short history of the Phoenicians /Mark WoolmerFirst edition.London, England :I. B. Tauris,2019.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,2019.1 online resource (234 pages) illustrations, maps, photographsI.B. Tauris short histories1-350-13026-5 1-78076-617-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.Introduction -- Historical overview -- Government and society -- Religion -- Art and material culture -- Overseas expansion -- Epilogue.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.I.B. Tauris short histories.PhoeniciansPhoeniciansHistoryPhoeniciaCivilizationPhoeniciansHistory.939.4/4Woolmer Mark752401YDXCPCaBNVSLUkLoBPBOOK9910811556403321A short history of the Phoenicians3977331UNINA