The history of Phoenicia / Josette Elayi ; translated from the French by Andrew Plummer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elayi, Josette, author.

Standardized Title:

Histoire de la Phénicie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phoenicians--History.

Phoenicians.

History.

Phoenicia--History.

Phoenicia.

Middle East--Phoenicia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : Lockwood Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1 Phoenicia Before 1200

1 The Prehistory of Phoenicia (ca. 70,000-3200) 27

2 Byblos and Egy(3200-1500 BCE) 32

3 The Other Proto-Phoenician Cities (3200-1500) 58

4 The Small Vassal States of the Near East (1500-1200) 66

Part 2 The Period of Phoenicia's Independence (1200-883)

1 The Emergence of Phoenicia (ca. 1200) 89

2 Egypt's Loss of Influence in Phoenicia (1200-1000) 99

3 Early Assyrian Exploration towards the West (1100-1000) 105

4 Dynastic Crises in Byblos (1000-900) 110

5 The Development and Expansion of the Phoenician Cities (1000-883) 116

Part 3 Phoenicia Under Assyrian Domination (883-610)

1 The Beginnings of Assyrian Expansion (883-745) 129

2 The Conquest of the West by the Assyrians (745-721) 144

3 Domination of Phoenicia by the Sargonids (721-610) 155

Part 4 Phoenicia Under Babylonian Domination (610-539)

1 Phoenicia between Egyand Babylonia (610-605) 185

2 The Peak of the Babylonian Empire (605-562) 190

3 The Decline of the Babylonian Empire (562-539) 209

Part 5 Phoenicia Under Persian Domination (539-332)

1 The Establishment of the Persian Empire (539-479) 221

2 The Development of the Persian Empire (479-404) 239

3 The Persian Empire in Turmoil (404-333) 252

4 The Fall of the Persian Empire (333-330) 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index.

ISBN:

193704081X

9781937040819

OCLC:

988170571

Publisher Number:

99977411596