The Punic Mediterranean
The Punic Mediterranean
The role of the Phoenicians in the economy, culture and politics of the ancient Mediterranean was as large as that of the Greeks and Romans, and deeply interconnected with that 'classical' world, but their lack of literature and their oriental associations mean that they are much less well-known. This book brings state-of-the-art international scholarship on Phoenician and Punic studies to an English-speaking audience, collecting new papers from fifteen leading voices in the field from Europe and North Africa, with a bias towards the younger generation. Focusing on a series of case-studies from the colonial world of the western Mediterranean, it asks what 'Phoenician' and 'Punic' actually mean, how Punic or western Phoenician identity has been constructed by ancients and moderns, and whether there was in fact a 'Punic world'.
- A host of leading international scholars tests ancient and modern definitions of 'Phoenician' and 'Punic' against case studies, thereby integrating theory with practice
- Combines the use of archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic, and literary sources
- Brings out the diverse nature of areas hitherto subsumed under the generic label 'Punic' and so gives an insight into the complexities of western Mediterranean history in antiquity
Reviews & endorsements
"This stimulating, informative, and timely volume advances our understanding of the Phoenicians’ place in the western Mediterranean, and reminds us that the Greeks and Romans should not be thought of as the only owners of the "Classical" past."
Carolina López-Ruiz, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'… the work coordinated by Quinn and Vella contributes brilliantly to the deconstruction and reformulation of ‘Punic’ (and ‘Phoenician’) identities through concepts - heterogeneity, connectivity, fluidity, negotiation, local agency and hybridism.' Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar, Antiquity
Product details
November 2018Paperback
9781107663787
404 pages
245 × 170 × 22 mm
0.36kg
75 b/w illus. 24 colour illus. 22 maps 4 tables
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Josephine Crawley Quinn and Nicholas C. Vella
- Part I. Contexts:
- 1. Phoinix and Poenus: usage in antiquity Jonathan R. W. Prag
- 2. The invention of the Phoenicians Nicholas C. Vella
- 3. Punic identities and modern perceptions in the western Mediterranean Peter van Dommelen
- 4. Phoenicity, Punicities Sandro Filippo Bondì
- 5. Death among the Punics Carlos Gómez Bellard
- 6. Coins and their use in the Punic Mediterranean Suzanne Frey-Kupper
- Part II. Case Studies:
- 7. Defining Punic Carthage Boutheina Maraoui Telmini, Roald Docter, Babette Bechtold, Fethi Chelbi and Winfred van de Put
- 8. Punic identity in North Africa: the funerary world Habib Ben Younès and Alia Krandel-Ben Younès
- 9. A Carthaginian perspective on the altars of the Philaeni Josephine Crawley Quinn
- 10. Numidia and the Punic world Virginie Bridoux
- 11. Punic Mauretania? Emanuele Papi
- 12. Punic after Punic times? The case of the so-called 'Libyphoenician' coins of southern Iberia Alicia Jiménez
- 13. More than neighbours: Punic-Iberian connections in southeast Iberia Carmen Aranegui Gascó and Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez
- 14. Identifying Punic Sardinia: local communities and cultural identities Andrea Roppa
- 15. Phoenician identities in Hellenistic times: strategies and negotiations Corinne Bonnet
- Afterword Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
