{"product_id":"phoenicians-and-the-making-of-the-mediterranean-9780674295575","title":"Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An important new book...offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an example of how more inclusive histories may be written.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Denise Demetriou, \u003ci\u003eNew England Classical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With a light touch and a masterful command of the literature, López-Ruiz replaces old ideas with a subtle and more accurate account of the extensive cross-cultural exchange patterns and economy driven by the Phoenician trade networks that 're-wired' the Mediterranean world. A must read.\"\u003cbr\u003e--J. G. Manning, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Open Sea\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] substantial and important contribution...to the ancient history of the Mediterranean. López-Ruiz's work does justice to the Phoenicians' role in shaping Mediterranean culture by providing rational and factual argumentation and by setting the record straight.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Hélène Sader, \u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer goods, and gods from Gibraltar to Tyre. This was not the Greek world--it was the Phoenician. Propelled by technological advancements of a kind unseen since the Neolithic revolution, Phoenicians knit together diverse Mediterranean societies, fostering a literate and sophisticated urban elite sharing common cultural, economic, and aesthetic modes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the trail of the Phoenicians from the Levant to the Atlantic coast of Iberia, Carolina López-Ruiz offers the first comprehensive study of the cultural exchange that transformed the Mediterranean in the eighth and seventh centuries BC. Greeks, Etruscans, Sardinians, Iberians, and others adopted a Levantine-inflected way of life, as they aspired to emulate Near Eastern civilizations. López-Ruiz explores these many inheritances, from sphinxes and hieratic statues to ivories, metalwork, volute capitals, inscriptions, and Ashtart iconography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeticulously documented and boldly argued, \u003ci\u003ePhoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean\u003c\/i\u003e revises the Hellenocentric model of the ancient world and restores from obscurity the true role of Near Eastern societies in the history of early civilizations.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50661724258578,"sku":"9780674295575","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a493e802-730e-47cd-85f5-042d8a0aa309.jpg?v=1733505395","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/phoenicians-and-the-making-of-the-mediterranean-9780674295575","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}