History of Phoenicia
Rawlinson's history of the Phoenician cities: Tyre, Sidon, and their colonies, the trade routes that carried purple, glass, and the alphabet across the Mediterranean, and the sieges endured under Assyria, Babylon, Persia, and Alexander. Written late in his tenure as Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford.
- Preface
- Chapter I The Land
- Chapter II Climate and Productions
- Chapter III The People—Origin and Characteristics
- Chapter IV The Cities
- Chapter V The Colonies
- Chapter VI Architecture
- Chapter VII Æsthetic Art
- Chapter VIII Industrial Art and Manufactures
- Chapter IX Ships, Navigation, and Commerce
- Chapter X Mining
- Chapter XI Religion
- Chapter XII Dress, Ornaments, and Social Habits
- Chapter XIII Phoenician Writing, Language, and Literature
- 1. Phoenicia, before the establishment of the hegemony of Tyre
- 2. Phoenicia under the hegemony of Tyre (B.C. 1252-877)
- 3. Phoenicia during the period of its subjection to Assyria (B.C
- 4. Phoenicia during its struggles with Babylon and Egypt (about B.C
- 5. Phoenicia under the Persians (B.C. 528-333)
- 6. Phoenicia in the time of Alexander the Great (B.C. 333-323)
- 7. Phoenicia under the Greeks (B.C. 323-65)
- 8. Phoenicia under the Romans (B.C. 65-A.D. 650)