- Hardcover: 392 pages
- Publisher: Sierra Sunrise Publishing (30 Mar 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1887263306
- ISBN-13: 978-1887263306
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #77 in Books > History > Countries & Regions > Asia > Middle East > Lebanon
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Newer book,
This review is from: Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage (Hardcover)
This Phoenicians book is out of print and was replaced by Phoenician Secrets: Exploring the Ancient Mediterranean (April 2011). Both books are by the same author, Sanford Holst, but the newer one contains five more years of research, removes bits of speculation, cites the source materials, and adds more photos. The new book is sold by Amazon and is a paperback so it has a lower cover price.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
history meets fiction,
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This review is from: Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage (Hardcover)
Although the narrative flows well, is easy to read and has some nice telling phrases i was disapointed. I read it because i read his 2005 article on the end of the Trojan War and how the Phoenicians benefited from it, which was well argued with plenty of footnotes, he says at the beginning of this book that he wants to tell the story without the tyranny of the footnote. This is a mistake. I can find no justification for Thera as a Phoenician colony and then the fact that from here they influenced the Minoans breaks down. He has an overly romantic and modern notion of what was a violent age. I am at one with him about the virtues of a maritime trading ethos but it cant have been entirely peaceful. Yes traders need peace and pirate free seas but behind the trade the threat of force has to be there. Many other reviewers have made much the same point.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (20 customer reviews) 13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Book... I could not put it down!,
By Cardesiner "Dany" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage (Hardcover)
There are few history books so compelling as to leave you wanting to read more and more. You simply can't get bored reading this book. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. Mr. Holst has done a phenomenal job in writing as well as researching the Phoenicians. I have read other books about Phoenicians in the past and was never really impressed. This one has a special way of pulling everything together so that their accomplishments make sense. The Phoenicians were a mysterious people because they were so secretive, that's why every other book about them has failed to make sense of who they were and why history has failed to recognize their greatness. For those who know some history about the Phoenicians in terms of their inventions and contributions, this is the first book that sets some of those details aside and looks at them as a people instead - where their greatness really lay. It was quite inspirational to me on a personal level, and amazingly enough, affected my business sense. That's something I definitely didn't expect. I highly recommend this book!
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read but be Cautious,
By E. Hanus - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage (Hardcover)
This is a wonderful read. The author does a great job of bringing these ancient people to life. One must, however, proceed with caution: for example, early in the book the author notes that there is no existing evidence that women were on city councils but says that given the reverance they received in this culture, he's certain that evidence that women did serve on city councils will be discovered; later in Chapter 10, he describes a captain's return to Santorini (presumeably an imaginary exchange based on historical evidence) wherein the head of the city council is a woman. The author may wish that were so, but as he acknowledged earlier in the book that simply is not the case based on the historical evidence that exists. It's unfortunate that he stopped to kneel at the altar of Political Correctness when so much of the book is wonderfully exiting. Though this isn't a scholarly tome, the author could be more careful with the facts: respectful of the historical evidence. A wonderful and vibrant look at this ancient people but proceed with caution.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
judging a book by its cover,
By Demetrios Vakras - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage (Hardcover)
On the cover of this book is a detail from one of the frescoes found on the Greek, Aegean island of Thera (Santorini). This site was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 1623 BC. It is not "Phoenician", or Lebanese!
On Thera, scenes/decorations depicted on wall frescoes are replicated on the daggers which have been found in the shaft graves of the Greek mainland city of Mycenae. Indeed, the same type of dagger has been found on Thera. Ships depicted on one of the frescoes on Thera are identical to ships depicted on signet rings, as per examples from graves on the Greek mainland site of Tyrins. Boar's tusk helmets depicted on another fresco at Thera are attested to on the entire Greek mainland as well as on Krete and are described in great detail as being worn by the Greeks besieging Troy in Homer's Iliad. A lady depicted on an adjacent fresco to the one pictured on the cover wears ear rings identical to those which are found in another of the shaft graves at Mycenae. The writing of Mycenaeans, known as "Linear B", was translated in 1954 by the Englishman Michael Ventris: it is Greek & dates to the 15th century BC. How do Mycenaean/Greek motifs come to be used as illustrating the world of Lebanese/Phoenicians? This book is propaganda. You don't have to go beyond the front cover to realise this. |
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