TY - BOOK ID - 145368248 TI - The Phoenicians : lost civilizations PY - 2021 SN - 9781789144789 PB - London : Reaktion Books, DB - UniCat KW - Phoenicians KW - Phéniciens KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - Phoenicia KW - Civilisation KW - Phénicie KW - Mediterranean Region. KW - Middle East KW - Civilization KW - Greek influences. KW - Civilization. KW - Influence grecque. KW - Civilisation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145368248 AB - The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage and the scope of their maritime and colonizing activities in the Mediterranean. Vadim S. Jigoulov describes and analyses various artefacts (epigraphic, numismatic and material remains) and considers how historians have derived information about a people with little surviving literature. This includes a critical look at classical, Near Eastern and biblical primary texts, the relationship between the Phoenician and Punic worlds, Phoenician interactions with the Greeks and others, and the repurposing of Phoenician heritage in modernity. Detailed and engrossing, The Phoenicians casts new light on this most enigmatic of civilizations ER -