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.
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Author(s): Vadim S. Jigoulov
Series: BibleWorld
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
Language: English
Commentary: Previously issued in print: London: Equinox, 2010.
Pages: x, 276
City: London ; New York
Tags: Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C; Phoenicia -- Historiography; Phoenicia -- Civilization; History -- Middle East; Ancient History
List of illustrations vii
List of tables ix
Preface x
Introduction 1
1 Politics of Reverence and Contempt: Achaemenid Phoenicia in Classical Texts 7
2 Listening to Indigenous Voices: The Achaemenidperiod Phoenician Epigraphic Sources 39
3 Getting with the Program: Achaemenid Phoenicia through Numismatics 71
4 Patterns of Continuity and Change: Achaemenid Phoenicia through Material Remains 113
5 The Phoenician City-states of Tyre and Sidon in Ancient Jewish Texts: Reflections of History 132
6 A Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: A Summary and a Proposal 162
Appendix A 175
Appendix B 179
Notes 203
References 227
Index 267
