Name: In Search of the Phoenicians (Miriam s. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology)
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Author: Josephine Quinn
ISBN: 9780691175270

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In Search of the Phoenicians (Miriam s. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Josephine Quinn

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

360

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780691175270

Synopsis "In Search of the Phoenicians (Miriam s. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology) "

Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers from the ancient world to today, this monumental book argues that the notion of these sailors as a coherent people with a shared identity, history, and culture is a product of modern nationalist ideologies―and a notion very much at odds with the ancient sources.Josephine Quinn shows how the belief in this historical mirage has blinded us to the compelling identities and communities these people really constructed for themselves in the ancient Mediterranean, based not on ethnicity or nationhood but on cities, family, colonial ties, and religious practices. She traces how the idea of “being Phoenician” first emerged in support of the imperial ambitions of Carthage and then Rome, and only crystallized as a component of modern national identities in contexts as far-flung as Ireland and Lebanon.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. A momentous scholarly achievement, this book also explores the prose, poetry, plays, painting, and polemic that have enshrined these fabled seafarers in nationalist histories from sixteenth-century England to twenty-first century Tunisia.

Josephine Quinn

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Josephine Quinn is a professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford, and Martin Frederiksen is an associate professor and tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College, Oxford. She graduated from Oxford and the University of Berkeley, has taught in the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and has co-directed archaeological excavations of teams made up of British and Tunisians in Utica. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, as well as radio and television programs. She is the author of the award-winning book In Search of the Phoenicians.

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