A Short History of the Phoenicians
Revised Edition
$32.75
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2021
Summary
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 intrepi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350153929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350153923 |
| Author: | Mark Woolmer |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2021 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 138mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Short Histories |
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Critics Review
“Extremely exciting - beautifully designed intellectually.” – Helen Castor, Fellow in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK
Extremely exciting – beautifully designed intellectually. * Helen Castor, Fellow in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK *
Mark Woolmer
Mark Woolmer is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, UK.
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