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4 kwi 2016 · Influenced by their predecessors and neighbours, the Phoenicians would spread their beliefs around the Mediterranean wherever they traded and established colonies, and their religion would continue to evolve and be perpetuated by their greatest colony of all, Carthage.
12 sie 2019 · As other ancient Mediterranean peoples, the Phoenicians had their own worldview, which did not distinguish between religious and other spheres of culture in the way we do. In particular, concepts such as exclusive faith in the gods are inapplicable to this type of society.
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.
Religious practice in Phoenicia varied by city, each having its own deity or deities. Among them were Baal and Baalat in Byblos, Melqart in Tyre, and Eshmun in Sidon. Nonetheless, beliefs and rituals shared many characteristics, some of which may have been the result of extended cultural contact.
The Punic religion, Carthaginian religion, or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion.
12 sie 2019 · The Phoenicians were famous for their seafaring prowess and long-distance travel and commercial reach. From the beginning of the Iron Age until the fifth century bce, the Phoenicians explored much of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts of Africa and Europe, going as far north as the British Isles and as far south as tropical West Africa ...
