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SUMMARY:Inventing Phoenicia? The Levantine Coast and Geographical Percepti
 on in the Ancient World - Dr Fred Hirt (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College)
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CONTACT:Sheila Betts
DESCRIPTION:For Greeks and Romans the word ‘Phoenicia’ could mean many
  things. For the Roman geographers it was a coastal strip reaching from to
 days island of Ruad in Syria down to Ashkelon in Israel and included the f
 amous cities of Beirut\, Sidon\, and Tyre in modern Lebanon. For historian
 s it was the area\, which Alexander the Great had conquered in 332 BC and 
 Hellenistic kings fought over in numerous wars for its possession. For myt
 hographers it was the home of princess Europe who had been stolen from the
  seashore by the bull-shaped Zeus\; of Dido\, the foundress of Carthage\; 
 and of Kadmos\, a hero who brought the alphabet to Greece. \nThe prominenc
 e of the region in Greek and Roman literature raises two fundamental quest
 ions: Did ‘Phoenicia’ have any meaning for the inhabitants of these co
 astal communities or for their neighbours? And from where did the term ‘
 Phoenicia’ originate? \n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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