Publication

2005-08-11 - I. B. Tauris

Language

English

Word Count

93,500 words, Guess

Page Count

374 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005280843
  • LibraryThing4191179
  • Goodreads577723

Classifications

  • LCCDS81 .R26 2005

Description

"George Rawlinson's classic account of the Phoenicians, one of the most important and compelling of ancient civilizations - and one of the least familiar to the general public - is here reissued in its first paperback edition. Topics covered include 'Early Phoenician Enterprise', 'Rise of Tyre to the First Rank Among the Cities', 'Phoenicia's Contest With Assyria, and Her Position as Assyria's Tributary', 'Phoenicia's Recovery of Independence', 'Phoenician Manufactures and Works of Art' and 'Phoenician Language, Writing and Literature'. This seminal work, which has provided the basis for much modern scholarship on the history and archaeology of the Levant, will be welcomed by all those interested in the ancient history of the Mediterranean world in general and of Lebanon in particular."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

First Sentence

AT the eastern end of the Mediterranean, facing towards the west, and looking out on the Levantine Sea, or "Sea of the Rising Sun," was the scanty, but fortunately situated, tract which the Greeks and Romans knew as PHOENICIA, or, "the Region of Palms."

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Phoenicia: History of a CivilizationPaperbackI. B. Tauris2005-08-11

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