The History of Phoenicia

By (author) Josette Elayi

Book cover: The History of Phoenicia

Extent: 324, 324 pages

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Mediterranean Archaeology

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2018)

ISBN: 9781937040819

5.98 x 8.98 inches

Price: $39.95

In stock

PDF (Published)

(May 2018)

ISBN: 9781937040826

Price: $25.00

The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to have left so few written traces of their existence. Their literature, recorded on papyrus, has disappeared. And yet this civilization fired the imagination of its contemporaries–the Jews in particular–inspiring terror among the Romans and Greeks, who depicted them as a cruel people who practiced human sacrifice. Their clients were the pharaohs and the Assyrians, their ships criss-crossed the Mediterranean, laden with the luxuries of the day such as wine, oil, grain, and mineral ore. Buried beneath the modern cities of Lebanon, and a few of Syria and Israel, ancient Phoenicia has resuscitated in this volume.

  • By (author) Josette Elayi