Phoenicia: Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean 1575061813, 9781575061818

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Phoenicia has long been known as the homeland of the Mediterranean seafarers who gave the Greeks their alphabet. But alo

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What was the ancient world like? Ancient sources tell us a great deal about the cultural patterns and values that prevai

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Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Class

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Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Class

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The land and sea routes of the Phoenicians in their homeland and their trading Empire are examined in the present volume

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Professor Aaboe gives here the reader a feeling for the universality of important mathematics, putting each chosen topic

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Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Me

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Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide

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