Details

Subject(s)

• Achaemenid dynasty 559-330 B.C. [Browse]
• Phoenicia—Historiography [Browse]
• Phoenicia—Civilization [Browse]

Series

• Bible world (London, England) [More in this series]
• BibleWorld

Summary note

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. This monograph explores the evidence from Persian-period literary (both ancient Jewish and classical), epigraphic, and numismatic sources, as well as material culture remains, in order to sketch just such a history. This study examines developments in Persian-period Phoenician city-states on the 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 the Persian imperial influence in the Levant.

Notes

First published 2010 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; 1 Politics of Reverence and Contempt: Achaemenid Phoenicia in Classical Texts; 2 Listening to Indigenous Voices: The Achaemenid-period Phoenician Epigraphic Sources; 3 Getting with the Program: Achaemenid Phoenicia through Numismatics; 4 Patterns of Continuity and Change: Achaemenid Phoenicia through Material Remains; 5 The Phoenician City-states of Tyre and Sidon in Ancient Jewish Texts: Reflections of History; 6 A Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: A Summary and a Proposal
• Appendix AAppendix B; Notes; References; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-93816-0
• 1-315-53960-8
• 1-134-93809-8

OCLC

950005412

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315539607

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