Paris, E. Leroux, 1896. — 7, 179, [1] p. illus., double plates (inc plans), fold. map. Ernest Charles François Babelon (* 7 November 1854 in Sarrey, Département Haute-Marne; † 3 January 1924 in Paris) was a French Numismatist and classical archaeologist.
Pen & Sword Military, 2007. — 232 p. At Zama (in what is now Tunisia) in 202 BC, the armies of two great empires clashed: the Romans under Scipio Africanus and Carthaginians, led by Hannibal. Scipio’s forces would win a decisive, bloody victory that forever shifted the balance of power in the ancient world. Thereafter, Rome became the dominant civilization of the Mediterranean....
Fourth Edition. — London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. — XX, 309, 24 p. : ill., maps (some fold.) Alfred John Church (29 January 1829 – 27 April 1912) was an English classical scholar. Church was born in London and was educated at King's College London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merchant Taylors' School from 1857-70. He...
Second Edition. — New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1963. — 336 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places) As the inventors of the alphabet, which they bequeathed to the modern world via the Greeks and Romans, the Phoenicians are assured of a lasting place in the history of civilization. But theirs was also one of the main formative elements of Mediterranean culture in the first...
Cavendish Square Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. The Phoenicians were known as intrepid sailors, and their skillful navigation and shipbuilding led to trade routes that brought them glory and economic power. Phoenician Trade Routes investigates the ways that technology helped to form trade partnerships between cultures, which ultimately resulted in the transmission of art, new...
Cavendish Square Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. The Phoenicians were known as intrepid sailors, and their skillful navigation and shipbuilding led to trade routes that brought them glory and economic power. Phoenician Trade Routes investigates the ways that technology helped to form trade partnerships between cultures, which ultimately resulted in the transmission of art, new...
London - New York: Routledge, 2003. – 321 p. ISBN 0-203-41782-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-41929-4 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-29911-X (Print Edition) Hannibal’s family dominated Carthage and its empire in Africa and Spain for the last forty years of the 3rd century BC. His father Hamilcar Barca created a powerful empire; Hamilcar’s son-in-law Hasdrubal developed it in...
Routledge, 2010. — 288 p. — (Series: Peoples of the Ancient World; Book 10). — ISBN: 978-0-415-43644-1. The Carthaginians reveals the complex culture, society and achievements of a famous, yet misunderstood ancient people. Beginning as Phoenician settlers in North Africa, the Carthaginians then broadened their civilisation with influences from neighbouring North African...
Brill Academic Pub, 2007. — 286 p. — (History of Warfare). The revolt of Carthage's mercenaries and oppressed Libyan subjects in 241-237 BC nearly ended her power and even existence. This 'truceless' war, unrivaled for its savagery, was fought over most of Punic North Africa and spread to Sardinia.
Routledge, 2014. — 256 p. 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...
Brill, 2019. — 324 p. In Byblos in the Late Bronze Age , Marwan Kilani reconstructs the "biography" of the city of Byblos during the Late Bronze Age. Commonly described simply as a centre for the trade of wood, the city appears here as a dynamic actor involved in multiple aspects of the regional geopolitical reality. By combining the information provided by written sources and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 792 p. The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it-yet they remain a shadowy and poorly understood group. The academic study of the Phoenicians has come to an important crossroads; the field has grown in sheer content, sophistication of analysis, and diversity of interpretation, and we now need a current overview of where the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 792 p. The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it-yet they remain a shadowy and poorly understood group. The academic study of the Phoenicians has come to an important crossroads; the field has grown in sheer content, sophistication of analysis, and diversity of interpretation, and we now need a current overview of where the...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 544 p. Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that ancient Rome struggled so mightily to expunge. This monumental work charts the entirety of Carthage's history, from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as a Mediterranean empire...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 360 p. — (Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology). The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling...
Cambridge University Press, British School at Rome Studies, 2015. — 414 p. The role of the Phoenicians in the economy, culture and politics of the ancient Mediterranean was as large as that of the Greeks and Romans, and deeply interconnected with that 'classical' world, but their lack of literature and their oriental associations mean that they are much less well-known. This...
London: Longmans, Green, 1897. — xxvi, 400 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. Smith, Reginald Bosworth (1839-1908), schoolmaster and author. 'Carthage and the Carthaginians' (abridged edit. 1881, 'Rome and Carthage') collected seven lectures also delivered before the Royal Institution. Here Bosworth Smith gave a graphic description of Carthage as 'Queen of the MediteiTanean,' and...
Pen And Sword Military, 2014. — 224 p. The epic struggle between Carthage and Rome, two of the superpowers of the ancient world, is most famous for land battles in Italy, on the Iberian peninsula and in North Africa. But warfare at sea, which played a vital role in the First and Second Punic Wars, rarely receives the attention it deserves. And it is the monumental clashes of...
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1960. — 222 p., with 4 maps and 8 plates. Brian H. Warmington — former Reader in Ancient History, University of Bristol, England. Author of The Roman North African Provinces and others.
München: Beck, 1995. - 124 S. Der Aufforderung des Verlags, ein „Destillat“ des Handbuchs „Geschichte der Karthager“ (München 1985) herzustellen, kam ich nur zögernd nach, zumal ich mir darüber im klaren war, daß dem „Destillat“ einige neuere Ingredienzien beizumi- schen sein würden. Einerseits reizte die Aufgabe, andererseits mußte eine drängende andere Verpflichtung...
Peeters Publishers, 2018. — 310 p. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture (EDPC) is the result of a wide-ranging international project and is intended to be an in-depth and up-to-date standard reference work for Phoenician studies. It is a series in the form of an encyclopaedia with the structure of a dictionary, comprising about 2,000 entries, written by circa 200...
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