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The Oxford handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean /

The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it-yet they remain a shadowy and poorly understood group. The academic study of the Phoenicians has come to an important crossroads; the field has grown in sheer content, sophistication of analysis, and diversity of interpretation, and we no...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Phoenicia > Civilization.
Mediterranean Region > Civilization > Phoenician influences.
Civilization.
Civilization > Phoenician influences.
Mediterranean Region.
Middle East > Phoenicia.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Brian R. Doak, Carolina López-Ruiz
  • The Archaeology of the Phoenician Cities / Hélène Sader
  • Early Carthage: From its Foundation to the Battle of Himera (ca. 814-480 BCE) / Hédi Dridi
  • Classical-Hellenistic Carthage before the Punic Wars (479-265 BCE) / Dexter Hoyos
  • The Punic Wars (264-146 BCE) / Christopher de Lisle
  • Carthage after the Punic Wars and the Neo-Punic Legacy / Matthew Hobson
  • The Language / Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo
  • Inscriptions / Madadh Richey
  • The Alphabet and its Legacy / Madadh Richey
  • Phoenician Literature / Carolina López-Ruiz
  • Religion / Paolo Xella
  • Research Tools / Philip C. Schmitz
  • Ritual and the Afterlife / Mireia López-Bertran
  • The tophet and Infant Sacrifice / Matthew M. McCarty
  • Pottery and Trade / Francisco J. Núñez
  • Art and Iconography / Eric Gubel
  • Levantine Art in the Orientalizing Period / Marian H. Feldman
  • Coins / John W. Betlyon
  • Metallurgy and Other Technologies / Philip Andrew Johnston, Brett Kaufman
  • Seafaring and Shipwreck Archaeology / Jeffrey P. Emanuel
  • Residential Architecture / Roald Docter
  • Agriculture / Carlos Gómez Bellard
  • Birth and Prospects of a Discipline / Nicholas C. Vella
  • The Levant / Gunnar Lehmann
  • Cyprus / Sabine Fourrier
  • The Aegean / Nikos Stampolidis
  • The Italian Peninsula / Jeremy Mark Hayne
  • Sardinia / Andrea Roppa
  • Sicily / Salvatore de Vincenzo
  • Malta and Gozo / Maxine Anastasi, Nicholas C. Vella
  • Ibiza / Benjamí Costa
  • The Iberian Peninsula / José Luis López Castro
  • Phoenicians in Portugal / Ana Margarida Arruda
  • Canaanite roots and the Proto-Phoenician period: c. 1300-1000 BCE / Ann E. Killebrew
  • The Gadir-Tyre Axis / Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar
  • North Africa: from the Atlantic to Algeria / Alfredo Mederos Martín
  • Phoenician Exploration / Duane W. Roller
  • Phoenicians in the Hebrew Bible / Brian R. Doak
  • Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Classical Literature / Josephine Crawley Quinn
  • Neo-Phoenician Identities in the Roman Empire / Anthony Kaldellis
  • Phoenicians and Carthaginians in the Western Imagination / Brien K. Garnand
  • Phoenician Identity in Modern Lebanon / Claude Doumet-Serhal
  • Punic Heritage in Tunisia / Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, Peter van Dommelen
  • Phoenicia in the Later Iron Age: Tenth Century BCE to the Assyrian and Babylonian Periods / Guy Bunnens
  • Tyre and its Colonial Expansion / María Eugenia Aubet Semmler
  • Phoenicia under Achaemenid Empire / Vadim Jigoulov
  • The Hellenistic Period and Hellenization in Phoenicia / Corinne Bonnet
  • Phoenicia in the Roman Empire / Julien Aliquot.