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12 sie 2019 · Like every polytheistic system, Phoenician religion is based on the belief in a multiplicity of superhuman agents, each with specific functions, organized in a particular hierarchy and a network of mutual relationships (Xella 1986). This symbolic system manifests itself at two different levels: ideological and practical.
The book aims to present a “schematic overview of Phoenicia and Phoenician history” between ca. 1300-300 BC. The Introduction briefly summarises the comments commonly reiterated in literature on the perception of the Phoenicians in antiquity as cunning merchants and their negative portrayal in later Greco-Roman sources.
12 sie 2019 · Abstract. 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 now need a current overview of where ...
The book’s leading thesis is to demonstrate, through the analysis of ancient documentation ranging from Near Eastern texts written in Ugaritic, Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew to those of ancient authors who wrote in Greek and Latin, that the Phoenicians never regarded themselves as a group.
12 sie 2019 · In this introductory chapter the editors speak to the relevance of the Phoenicians as active cultural, economic, and political agents in ancient Mediterranean history. The Phoenicians are the constantly underrated, even marginalized “third party” in a story written as a tale of Greek and Roman success in the Mediterranean world.
The Phoenician and Punic religion appears as particularly open to foreign influences and borrowings; it often employs composite images between anthropomorphism and aniconism. As in many other religions, sacrifices represent the core of the ritual system, a “middle ground,” where gods and men interact.
11 gru 2017 · In Search of the Phoenicians delves into the ancient literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and artistic evidence for the construction of identities by and for the Phoenicians, ranging from the Levant to the Atlantic, and from the Bronze Age to late antiquity and beyond.
