Phœnicia and Syria return for a short time to the Seleucidæ after the victories of Lucullus.
It was one of his vast projects to colonise by their means the islands in the Persian Gulf and its seacoast--a region not less fertile, says Arrian, than Phœnicia itself.
Phœnicia could aspire to anything like first rank among the nations.
Tiglathpileser I of Assyria visits Phœnicia in his military campaigns.
Niger, who commanded in the East, had his headquarters at Antioch, and all Syria as far as the Euphrates and the coast of Phœnicia was under his power.
Asshurnazirpal of Assyria invades Phœnicia and erects a stele at the Nahr-el-Kelb, near Berytus.
Tennes leads a revolt of Phœnicia against Persia, Cyprus joins him.
As the traditions of the Phœnicians and of the neighbouring Hebrews and Syrians so long preserved the memory of the two kings, they look upon this time as the period of splendour of both Phœnicia and Israel.
Perrot and Chipiez’s History of Art in Phœnicia and Cyprus, I.
For he and his son--even this youth whom I see before me--will also be in the minds of all men when lands beyond the Pillars of Hercules shall have taken the place of Phœnicia and of Greece.
Herein comes a great political problem, which never presented itself to any mind in the old colonizing days of Phœnicia and Greece, and which never presented itself to any mind in modern Europe till quite lately.
So says Eusebius, and the same tradition has currency among classic authorities from Plato to Tacitus, while the fact of the active intercourse which long prevailed between Phœnicia and Egypt goes far in its support.
It figures the progress of war from the north of Syria southwards by the valley of the Orontes to Damascus, and then along the coasts of Phœnicia and the Philistines.
They testify to the long and deep influence and authority of Babylon in Western Asia, and throw light on the prehistoric art of Phœnicia and Cyprus.
In Phœnicia and northern Syria, which formed the greater part of the fifth satrapy, a great quantity of coins were struck off by the tributary dynasties.
This Nicia Calfucci (for such his name) Was fully bent to have a father's fame, And thought his country honour he could do, Could he contrive his lineage to pursue.
THE snares were spread, each stratagem was laid; And every thing arranged to furnish aid, When our gay spark determined to invest Old Nicia with the cuckold's branching crest.
THE whole arrangement Nicia much approved; But now 'twas time the lady should be moved.
Yankhamu, an Egyptian commander, appears in these letters in all parts of the country, from the extreme south to the north, and in Phœnicia as well as in Bashan.
It were therefore to be wished, that the terms Phœnix and Phœnicia had never been used in the common acceptation; at least when the discourse turns upon the more antient history of Canaan.
But these countries were all separate and distinct; among which Phœnicia bore but a small proportion.
They had no clear idea of what Phœnicia really was, but imagined it to be an island, evidently confounding it with our colony of Chittim, or with our settlement at Chalcis, which was considerably nearer to them.
They almost seem to think Phœnicians ubiquitous, for they give the name of Phœnicia to the coast of Caria, where our merchants have established some marts.
Phœnicia has given you up in despair; every one mourned you as lost.
After we had given each other the latest news of Phœnicia and Tarshish, the overseer said in his own abrupt way: "You seem brave enough; but I have a great respect for numbers.
All Phœnicia knows how I superintended the floating of the cedar-wood and all the materials which King Solomon required for the magnificent temple he was rearing at Jerusalem.
The pyramids of Egypt, Assyria, and Phnicia had their duplicates in Mexico and Central America.
The large and safe harbours gave to this island a great value in the naval warfare between Phœnicia and Asia Minor.
The old Phœnicia on the Syrian shore had fallen from its glory; its commonwealths, still rich and flourishing, had sunk into dependencies of the Persian power.
And accordingly we may set down the position of this family in Greece, as the earliest token of relations between Phœnicia and Greece.
For that name directly establishes a connection with the arts that made Sidon and Phœnicia so famous.
On the ancient and extensive influence of Phœnicia upon Crete, see Höck’s Creta, vol.
We already know the connection of Crete with Greece from the Iliad: and thus it appears as on the high road from Greece to Phœnicia, and by Phœnicia to Egypt.
The people, however, were not perfectly cured of the sin of idolatry, and paid religious veneration to the gods of Phœnicia and Moab.
Alexander did not march to Babylon, until he had subdued Phœnicia and Egypt.
The next year, Pompey advanced south, and established the Roman supremacy in Phœnicia and Palestine, the latter country being the seat of civil war between Hyrcanus and Aristobulus.
It is important, therefore, to look for further evidence to Arabia as the obvious bond of union both with Phœnicia and Babylonia.
It has been regarded as a settled fact that she was Semitic, and came to Greece from Phœnicia or Cyprus.
Aramaic merchants were settled on the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris, and conveyed the products of Babylonia and Phœnicia from one country to the other.
Nebuchadnezzar had not much difficulty in crushing the Jewish outbreak; but Tyre resisted his arms with extreme obstinacy, and it was not till thirteen years after the revolt took place that Phœnicia was re-conquered.
Persians by fomenting the war of the satraps against Artaxerxes Mnemon, and, having obtained the services of Agesilaüs and Chabrias, even ventured to invade Phœnicia and attempt its reduction.
Nebuchadnezzar was still unable to reduce Phœnicia to subjection, he ventured, in B.
Within three years after the battle of Carchemish Judæa threw off the yoke of Babylon, and a few years later Phœnicia rebelled under the hegemony of Tyre.
Phœnicia was hesitating whether to submit to Nabopolassar or to assert her freedom.
He made an expedition against Tyre and Sidon both by land and sea, defeated the combined fleet of Phœnicia and Cyprus in a great engagement, besieged Sidon, and after a time compelled it to surrender.
The extreme gullibility of Nicia and his desire for an heir are the motives upon which Callimaco relies to work his schemes.
Men are not such fools as Nicia or such catspaws as Ligurio and Timoteo.
Nicia revolts against this odious project, which makes him the destroyer of his own honor and a murderer.
The inhabitants of Emesa in Phœnicia adored him under the name of Elagabalus; and the Sun, as Hercules, was the great Deity of the Tyrians.
In Egypt the State was as thoroughly subordinated to the priestly class as in Persia to the military caste, or in Phœnicia and Carthage to the mercantile caste.
In Phœnicia we find a marked departure from the family training that formed so large a part of the instruction in other Oriental nations.
Perrot and Chipiez: History of Art in Phœnicia and Cyprus.
Phœnicia is the narrow strip of country one hundred and fifty miles long by twenty-four to thirty wide, shut in between the sea of Syria and the high range of Lebanon.
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