Research Catalog

Title

The Punic Mediterranean : identities and identification from Phoenician settlement to Roman rule / edited by Josephine Crawley Quinn and Nicholas C. Vella.

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Quinn, Josephine Crawley
• Vella, Nicholas C.

Description

xxvi, 376 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

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 the state of the art in 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 is the first volume in any language to address the questions of what 'Phoenician' and 'Punic' actually mean, how 'Punic' or western Phoenician identity has been constructed by ancients and moderns, the coherency of Punic culture, and whether there was in fact a 'Punic world'.

Series Statement

British School at Rome studies

Uniform Title

British School at Rome studies.

Subjects

• Cities and towns, Ancient > Western Mediterranean
• Punic antiquities > Western Mediterranean
• National characteristics, Mediterranean
• Group identity > Mediterranean Region
• Phoenicians > Western Mediterranean > History
• Carthaginians > Western Mediterranean > History
• Western Mediterranean > Antiquities, Phoenician

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Josephine Crawley Quinn and Nicholas C. Vella -- PART I. CONTEXTS -- Phoenix and Poenus : usage in antiquity / Jonathan R.W. Prag -- The invention of the Phoenicians : on object definition, decontextualization and display / Nicholas C. Vella -- Punic identities and modern perceptions in the western Mediterranean / Peter van Dommelen -- Phoenicity, punicities / Sandro Filippo Bondi -- Death among the Punics / Carlos Gómez Bellard -- Coins and their use in the Punic Mediterranean : case studies from Carthage to Italy from the fourth to the first century BCE / Suzanne Frey-Kupper -- PART II. CASE STUDIES -- Defining Punic Carthage / Boutheina Maraoui Telmini, Roald Docter, Babette Bechtold, Fethi Chelbi and Winfred van de Put -- Punic identity in North Africa : the funerary world / Habib ben Younès and Alia Krandel-ben Younès -- A Carthaginian perspective on the altars of the Philaeni / Josephine Crawley Quinn -- Numidia and the Punic world / Virginie Bridoux -- Punic Mauretania? / Emanuele Papi -- Punic after Punic times? : the case of the so-called 'Libyphoenician' : coins of southern Iberia / Alicia Jiménez -- More than neighbours : Punic-Iberian connections in southeast Iberia / Carmen Aranegui Gascó and Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez -- Identifying Punic Sardinia : local communities and cultural identities / Andrea Roppa -- Phoenician identities in Hellenistic times : strategies and negotiations / Corinne Bonnet -- Afterword / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.

Call Number

JFF 16-884

ISBN

• 9781107055278
• 110705527X

LCCN

• 2014022408
• 9781107055278

OCLC

882899329

Title

The Punic Mediterranean : identities and identification from Phoenician settlement to Roman rule / edited by Josephine Crawley Quinn and Nicholas C. Vella.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

British School at Rome studies

British School at Rome studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.

Added Author

Quinn, Josephine Crawley, editor.

Vella, Nicholas C., editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9781107055278

Research Call Number

JFF 16-884