The Social History of Achaemenid PhoeniciaBeing a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires
Vadim S. Jigoulov
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Description
Even though the Persian period has attracted a fair share of scholarly interest in recent years, as yet no concerted effort has been attempted to construct a comprehensive social history of Phoenician city-states as an integral part of the Achaemenid empire. The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia explores the evidence from Persian-period literary (both ancient Jewish and classical), epigraphic, and numismatic sources, as well as material culture remains, to sketch just such a history.
This book examines developments in the Persian-period Phoenician city-states on three levels: that of the individual household, the city-state, and the administrative unit of the Persian empire. These three societal levels are analyzed within the contexts of economic competition between and among the Phoenician city-states, their burgeoning economic ties with the outside world, and their interaction with Persian imperial influence in the Levant.
Even though the Persian period has attracted a fair share of scholarly interest in recent years, as yet no concerted effort has been attempted to construct a comprehensive social history of Phoenician city-states as an integral part of the Achaemenid empire. The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia explores the evidence from Persian-period literary (both ancient Jewish and classical), epigraphic, and numismatic sources, as well as material culture remains, to sketch just such a history.
This book examines developments in the Persian-period Phoenician city-states on three levels: that of the individual household, the city-state, and the administrative unit of the Persian empire. These three societal levels are analyzed within the contexts of economic competition between and among the Phoenician city-states, their burgeoning economic ties with the outside world, and their interaction with Persian imperial influence in the Levant.
Contents
Introduction
I. Politics of Reverence and Contempt: Achaemenid Phoenicia in Classical
Texts
II. Achaemenid Phoenicia through Epigraphic Sources: An Insider’s View
III. Getting with the Program: Achaemenid Phoenicia through
Numismatics
IV. Achaemenid-Era Phoenician City-States through Material Remains:
Patterns of Continuity and Change
V. The Phoenician City-States of Tyre and Sidon in Ancient Jewish Texts:
Reflections of History
VI. A Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: A Proposal
Appendices
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845533313 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845533311 |
| Price (Hardback) | £55.00/$95.00 |
| Publication Date | April 2010 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
| Illustrations | 30 figures |
| Readership | scholars |
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