Ancient History Magazine 53

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Phoenicians ships sailed throughout the Mediterranean world, meeting new cultures and trading with them. They brought new technologies, art styles, and ways of thinking. Without them, the ancient world would have been very different.

Theme: The Phoenicians

Murray Dahm, 'Exploring Phoenician influence - Overlooked innovators'.

Carolina López-Ruiz, 'The ancient Phoenicians - A question of identity'.

Eleftheria Pappa, 'From myth to history - Phoenicians in Iberia and Tartessos'.

Iván Fumadó Ortega, 'Early history and legends - Phoenician Carthage'.

Owain Williams, 'Tyre's control over Cyprus - Trick imperial entanglements'.

Features:

Roy van Wijk, 'A little frog in a big pond? - Oropus and the Amphiareum'.

Gregory Mumford, 'Early Egyptian relations with sub-Saharan Africa - Trade, war, and diplomacy'.

Philip Matyszak, 'Measurements and mathematics in Ancient Rome - Practical-minded masters'.

Gareth Williams, 'Funerary cult in ancient Athens - Visting rites'.

Tim Howe, 'Separating fact from fiction - The founding of Alexandria'.

Philip Matyszak, 'Manumission in ancient Rome - How to free your slave'.

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