Originally published 2010 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-266) and index.
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1. Politics of reverence and contempt : Achaemenid Phoenicia in classical texts -- 2. Listening to indigenous voices : the Achaemenidperiod Phoenician epigraphic sources -- 3. Getting with the program : Achaemenid Phoenicia through numismatics -- 4. Patterns of continuity and change : Achaemenid Phoenicia through material remains -- 5. The Phoenician city-states of Tyre and Sidon in ancient Jewish texts : reflections of history -- 6. A social history of Achaemenid Phoenicia : a summary and a proposal.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 classical), epigraphic, and numismatic sources, as well as material culture remains, in order to sketch just such a history. This study examines developments in Persian-period Phoenician city-states on the three levels: that of the individual household, the city-state, and the administrative unit of the Persian empire. These three societal levels are analyzed within the contexts of economic competition between and among the Phoenician city-states, their burgeoning economic ties with the outside world, and their interaction with the Persian imperial influence in the Levant.