Aubet, Marķa Eugenia

The Phoenicians and the west : politics, colonies and trade Marķa Eugenia Aubet - 2nd ed - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001 - xv, 432 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm

Contents : 1. Who were the Phoenicians? -- 2. Phoenicia during the Iron Age -- 3. The bases for the expansion in the Mediterranean -- 4. Phoenician trade: exchange mechanisms and organization -- 5. The great political institutions: the palace and the temple -- 6. The routes of Phoenician expansion in the Mediterranean -- 7. The Phoenicians in the west: chronology and historiography -- 8. The Phoenician colonies in the central Mediterranean -- 9. The colonies of the far west -- 10. The colonies in the west -- 11. Concluding thoughts -- App. I. The journey of Wen-Amon to Phoenicia -- App. II. Oracles against Tyre -- App. III. Radiometric datings

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Phoenicians
Tyre (Lebanon) -- History
West Mediterranean -- History

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