The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient WorldMorrow, 1975 - 288 pages Examines the history, people, culture, civilization, and achievements of the Phoenicians, whose supremacy in shipbuilding and navigation enabled them to be masters of the ancient world for three hundred years. |
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Page 24
... course of which weaker groups are pushed out or strong , enterprising ones decide to seek their luck elsewhere , and consequently emigrate . The Bible , which describes migrations of this sort made by the Bedouin tribes , gives a brief ...
... course of which weaker groups are pushed out or strong , enterprising ones decide to seek their luck elsewhere , and consequently emigrate . The Bible , which describes migrations of this sort made by the Bedouin tribes , gives a brief ...
Page 72
... course across the open sea . Even they needed land bases at regular intervals , since they were not really up to weathering severe gales and therefore always had to be able to leave their set course , wherever they were , and seek a ...
... course across the open sea . Even they needed land bases at regular intervals , since they were not really up to weathering severe gales and therefore always had to be able to leave their set course , wherever they were , and seek a ...
Page 164
... course the educated reader knows at once what all this means . The bull was Zeus . He had fallen in love with the Phoe- nician beauty , taken the form of a bull in order to approach her unnoticed by his wife , and had carried her off to ...
... course the educated reader knows at once what all this means . The bull was Zeus . He had fallen in love with the Phoe- nician beauty , taken the form of a bull in order to approach her unnoticed by his wife , and had carried her off to ...
Contents
The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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