The Phoenicians
By: Elsa Marston
Series: Cultures of the past
Publisher: Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780761403098
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Phoenicians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and (p. 77) index.
Table of contents: title: History: a civilization of city-states: Canaanite heritage; title: Sea peoples; title: Rise of the Phoenician cities; title: Tyre, the jewel of cities; title: Phoenicians abroad; title: Armies from the east; title: And then the Greeks; title: Carthage; title: Carthage versus Rome; title: Cultural history: traders, craftspeople, sailors, writers: Phoenician arts; title: Purple of Tyre and cedar of Lebanon; title: Builders; title: Seafarers; title: First alphabet; title: But where are the Phoenician writers?; title: Carthage; title: Another loss; title: Belief system: the family of gods: Gods and goddesses; title: Larger family of deities; title: Temples and high places; title: Sacrifice; title: Death and the afterlife; title: Carthaginians; title: Beliefs and society: old stories, and some new ideas: Baal and Adonis; title: Phoenician gods in Israel; title: Child sacrifice, true or not?; title: How the Greeks viewed the Phoenicians; title: Legacy of the Phoenicians: Phoenicians in the modern world: Echoes from ancient times; title: Today's "Phoenicians"; title: "Phoenicia" today; title: The Phoenicians: a time line; title: Glossary.