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 162
... rich in ore , and I am the daughter of Arybas , who is very rich . But robbers carried me off as I returned from the fields and sold me into the household of this man [ the King of Syria ] . " Her lover , the story continues , rogue ...
... rich in ore , and I am the daughter of Arybas , who is very rich . But robbers carried me off as I returned from the fields and sold me into the household of this man [ the King of Syria ] . " Her lover , the story continues , rogue ...
Page 180
... rich in vowels . They could not manage with the Semitic consonants alone . So they made two symbols which did not correspond with any sound they used into their alpha and omicron , one of the two Semitic hs into their epsilon and the ...
... rich in vowels . They could not manage with the Semitic consonants alone . So they made two symbols which did not correspond with any sound they used into their alpha and omicron , one of the two Semitic hs into their epsilon and the ...
Page 196
... rich . But what did that mean ? The Greek Sicilian towns were also rich . Syracuse with its population of nearly five hundred thousand and its vast harbour was like an antique New York . In Acragas , present - day Agrigentum , huge ...
... rich . But what did that mean ? The Greek Sicilian towns were also rich . Syracuse with its population of nearly five hundred thousand and its vast harbour was like an antique New York . In Acragas , present - day Agrigentum , huge ...
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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