The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia : Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires (Bibleworld)

Jigoulov, Vadim S.

Routledge（2019/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 286 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367872342
• DDC分類 939.4403

Full 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. 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.

Contents

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.