Josephine Quinn
Auteur de In Search of the Phoenicians
A propos de l'auteur
Josephine Quinn is associate professor of ancient history at the University of oxford and a fellow of Worcester College. She is the coeditor of The Hellenisic West and The Punic Mediterranean.
Œuvres de Josephine Quinn
The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule (British School at Rome… (2014) — Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires
The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean (2013) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean (Issues & Debates) (2011) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
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- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Études
- Oxford University (Wadham College) (BA|Classics|Hons|1996)
University of California, Berkeley (MA|Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology|1998)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD|Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology|2003) - Professions
- Associate Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University (Worcester)
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- Œuvres
- 4
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- 4
- Membres
- 139
- Popularité
- #147,351
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
- Langues
- 1
In Search of the Phoenicians takes the reader on an exhilarating quest to reveal more about these enigmatic people. Using a dazzling array of evidence, this engaging book investigates the construction of identities by and for the Phoenicians from the Middle East to Ireland, from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity and beyond.
The volume’s starting point is to emphasise the lack of definitive evidence to support the notion that the Phoenicians ever self-identified as a single ethnic group or acted as a stable collective. Quinn, however, argues against simply dismissing them as a historical mirage. Rather, having demonstrated that the Phoenicians were originally an invention of ancient Greek ethnographic traditions, she shows how, during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, eastern and western conceptions of ethnicity became blurred, leading some cities to identify themselves as ‘Phoenician’. Significantly, she also shows that those cities that promoted their supposedly Phoenician heritage did so because they wished to convey a political or cultural message, rather than because they endorsed the concept of a specifically Phoenician ethnicity. Carthage, for example, embraced its ‘Phoenician’ heritage as a way of enhancing its prestige and authority, consolidating its power in North Africa and encouraging other ‘Phoenician’ cities to join it in resisting Roman imperialism.
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