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Author : Benedikt S. J. Isserlin,Joan Du Plat Taylor
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Archaeology (Excavations)
ISBN : 9004038396
Author : Isserlin,Joan Du Plat Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004663398
Author : Graham Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500515156
Author : J. Brian Peckham
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068961
Phoenicia has long been known as the homeland of the Mediterranean seafarers who gave the Greeks their alphabet. But along with this fairly well-known reality, many mysteries remain, in part because the record of the coastal cities and regions that the people of Phoenicia inhabited is fragmentary and episodic. In this magnum opus, the late Brian Peckham examines all of the evidence currently available to paint as complete a portrait as is possible of the land, its history, its people, and its culture. In fact, it was not the Phoenicians but the Canaanites who invented the alphabet; what distinguished the Phoenicians in their turn was the transmission of the alphabet, which was a revolutionary invention, to everyone they met. The Phoenicians were traders and merchants, the Tyrians especially, thriving in the back-and-forth of barter in copper for Levantine produce. They were artists, especially the Sidonians, known for gold and silver masterpieces engraved with scenes from the stories they told and which they exchanged for iron and eventually steel; and they were builders, like the Byblians, who taught the alphabet and numbers as elements of their trade. When the Greeks went west, the Phoenicians went with them. Italy was the first destination; settlements in Spain eventually followed; but Carthage in North Africa was a uniquely Phoenician foundation. The Atlantic Spanish settlements retained their Phoenician character, but the Mediterranean settlements in Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, and Malta were quickly converted into resource centers for the North African colony of Carthage, a colony that came to eclipse the influence of the Levantine coastal city-states. An emerging independent Western Phoenicia left Tyre free to consolidate its hegemony in the East. It became the sole west-Asiatic agent of the Assyrian Empire. But then the Babylonians let it all slip away; and the Persians, intent on war and world domination, wasted their own and everyone’s time trying to dominate the irascible and indomitable Greeks. The Punic West (Carthage) made the same mistake until it was handed off to the Romans. But Phoenicia had been born in a Greek matrix and in time had the sense and good grace to slip quietly into the dominant and sustaining Occidental culture. This complicated history shows up in episodes and anecdotes along a frangible and fractured timeline. Individual men and women come forward in their artifacts, amulets, or seals. There are king lists and alliances, companies, and city assemblies. Years or centuries are skipped in the twinkling of any eye and only occasionally recovered. Phoenicia, like all history, is a construct, a product of historiography, an answer to questions. The history of Phoenicia is the history of its cities in relationship to each other and to the peoples, cities, and kingdoms who nourished their curiosity and their ambition. It is written by deduction and extrapolation, by shaping hard data into malleable evidence, by working from the peripheries of their worlds to the centers where they lived, by trying to uncover their mentalities, plans, beliefs, suppositions, and dreams in the residue of their products and accomplishments. For this reason, the subtitle, Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean, is a particularly appropriate description of Peckham’s masterful (posthumous) volume, the fruit of a lifetime of research into the history and culture of the Phoenicians.
Author : B. S. J. Isserlin,Joan du Plat Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1154044336
Author : Garrett Fagan,Matthew Trundle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004187344
New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare explores the armies of antiquity from Assyria and Persia, to classical Greece and Rome. The studies illustrate the ways in which technology, innovation, cultural exchange, and tactical developments transformed ancient warfare by land and sea.
Author : Ebied
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004659391
Author : Amalia Avramidou,Denise Demetriou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110308815
This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary methodology, examining both literary and archaeological sources, and a comparative perspective that transgresses national, chronological, and cultural boundaries, in order to investigate the nature of the links between text and image. This multifaceted approach to the study of ancient artifacts enables the authors to treat art and artistic production as activities that do not merely mirror social or cultural relationships but rather, and more significantly, as activities that create social and cultural relationships. The essays in this book are motivated by their authors' belief that there is no simple direct link between art and myths, art and text, or art and ritual, and that art should not be delegated to the role of a by-product of a literate culture. Instead, the contextual and symbolic analyses of artifacts and representations offered in this volume elucidate how art actively shaped myth, how it changed texts, how it transformed ritual, and how it altered the course of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories.
Author : B. S. J. Isserlin,Joan du Plat Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Carthaginians
ISBN : 9004038396
Author : Melanie Jonasch
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789253597
The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the first millennium BCE: the Phoenicians and the Greeks. While trade and cultural exchange preceded their permanent presence, it was the colonizing movement that brought territorial competition and political power struggles on the island to a new level. The history of six centuries of colonization is replete with accounts of conflict and warfare that include cross-cultural confrontations, as well as interstate hostilities, domestic conflicts, and government violence. This book is not concerned with realities from the battlefield or questions of military strategy and tactics, but rather offers a broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyze how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters substantially affected rural and urban environments, the island’s heterogeneous communities, and their social practices. These contributions, originating from a workshop in 2018, combine expertise from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, and philology. The focus on a specific time period and the limited geographic area of Greek Sicily allows for the thorough investigation and discussion of various forms of organized societal violence and their consequences on the developments in society and landscape.
Author : Rachel Thyrza Sparks,Bill Finlayson,Bart Wagemakers,Josef Mario Briffa SJ
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789693522
21 papers present a holistic perspective on the research and public value of the site of Jericho – an iconic site with a long and impressive history stretching from the Epipalaeolithic to the present day. Covering all aspects of archaeological work from past to present and beyond, they re-evaluate and assess the legacy of this important site.
Author : David L. Carmichael,Robert H. Lafferty,Brian Molyneaux
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759100195
An introduction to excavation methods for archaeologists.
Author : Lela Manning Urquhart
Publisher : Stanford University
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:fv818dt6086
This project examines the long-term responses of indigenous societies in Sicily and Sardinia to colonial religion in the ancient western Mediterranean. It conducts a comparative analysis of religious developments among indigenous, Greek, and Phoenician communities between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. It shows that while indigenous communities near Greek colonies in Sicily integrated Greek-style material culture and practices into their religious lives, those near Phoenician colonies in Sardinia and Sicily showed much less interest in Phoenician material culture and religion. This contrast is then explained in terms of the greater social accessibility and more communal features of Greek polis religion, which made its practices and material culture broadly attractive across cultural divides in a time of rapid social change.
Author : Robert Knight Moffett
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032646229
Introduces the purpose, equipment, and basic techniques of archaeological field work for the amateur and includes tips on how to get on digs.
Author : Lynn Meskell,Robert W. Preucel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470692868
The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarly work to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology over the past two decades. Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places, and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay that contextualizes the history and developments in social archaeology and related fields. Draws together newer trends that are challenging established ways of understanding the past. Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated major theoretical trends.