The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia
Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires
- 276 pages
- English
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About This Book
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.
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Table of 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 A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- References
- Index