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 191
... Italy . Georgiev gives a startling answer to that too . The Greek name for the Trojans , he says , was Troes . This word again goes back to an earlier Troses , just as Troy was derived from Trosia . A place of the same name is ...
... Italy . Georgiev gives a startling answer to that too . The Greek name for the Trojans , he says , was Troes . This word again goes back to an earlier Troses , just as Troy was derived from Trosia . A place of the same name is ...
Page 241
... Italy , and now the former were sitting in Messana . Rome at once said she knew nothing of such an arrangement , and it is difficult to know which of the two was in the right . B. H. Warmington is of the opinion that the Carthaginians ...
... Italy , and now the former were sitting in Messana . Rome at once said she knew nothing of such an arrangement , and it is difficult to know which of the two was in the right . B. H. Warmington is of the opinion that the Carthaginians ...
Page 258
... Italy for a while . But while this was happening , the Romans took Syracuse , which had allied itself with Carthage once more ( and there murdered the brilliant mathematician Archimedes ) ; conquered , together with several Greek towns ...
... Italy for a while . But while this was happening , the Romans took Syracuse , which had allied itself with Carthage once more ( and there murdered the brilliant mathematician Archimedes ) ; conquered , together with several Greek towns ...
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The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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