Herodotus brings the Phœnicians from the Mare Erythræum; by which he means the Sinus Persicus.
The extent of country covered by the commerce of the Phnicians represents to some degree the area of the old Atlantean Empire.
Not alone were the gods of the Greeks the deified kings of Atlantis, but we find that the mythology of the Phnicians was drawn from the same source.
The Phnicians believed in an evil spirit called Zebub; the Peruvians had a devil called Cupay.
We may remark, in passing, that there is nothing to prove that the Phnicians were the first navigators.
The Phnicians worshipped Baal and Moloch; the one represented the beneficent, and the other the injurious powers of the sun.
Phnicians could not have been the authors of the Bronze Age: First, the ornamentation is different.
Antiochus Epiphanes died in 164, and Maccabeus fought with success against the Idumeans, Syrians, Phœnicians and others, who had formed a league for the destruction of the Jews.
Ursa Minor was also called Phœnice, because the Phœnicians made it their guide in navigation, while the Greeks preferred the Great Bear for that purpose.
The old glory of Tyre departed with the transfer of its chief trade to the newly created city of Alexandria, though the indomitable energy of the Phœnicians again, in Roman times, made it a great seat of trade.
Africa was circumnavigated by Phœnicians in his service, who sailed from the Arabian Gulf, and passed round by the Straits of Gibraltar to the mouths of the Nile.
A god of the Phœnicians to whom human victims, principally children, were sacrificed.
The people known to us as Phœnicians were pre-eminent as the colonizing navigators of antiquity.
It was to degrade this religious emblem of the Phœnicians that Alexander ordered the execution of two thousand principal citizens of Tyre by crucifixion.
It is said, more or less clearly, by more than one Greek writer, that the Phœnicians and Carthaginians knew the way to a continent beyond the Atlantic.
Perhaps they made other voyages to that region, but it was a custom of the Phœnicians to be very secret in regard to the methods and paths of their commerce.
Like the Romans, the Phœnicians had little creative instinct.
According to that tradition, the Phœnicians had not invented written characters, but had simply "changed their shapes.
And, what is of the highest moment to remember, so far as the origin of the art of navigation in Ægean waters goes, there can be no question between the old claims on behalf of the Phœnicians and the present claims on behalf of Crete.
And when the Phœnicians came into the Ægean they found an ancient script whereby intercourse was facilitated along the Mediterranean, a script of which so pliant a people, eager for trade, would avail themselves.
The question is also asked, Why did not the Phœnicians borrow the hieroglyphic instead of the hieratic characters?
All modern writers are agreed that religious cults and national customs are exactly what the Greeks did not borrow from Egypt, any more than the Hebrews borrowed thence their religion, or the Phœnicians their commerce.
The Phœnicians came under various influences, and their adaptive character readily took the impress of their surroundings.
Tradition asserted that "the Phœnicians did not claim to be themselves the inventors of the art of writing, but admitted that it was obtained by them from Egypt.
Between their rise and decline the Phœnicians had put the alphabet into, practically, its present form, and secured its adoption by the Greeks.
Many times, too, I had heard amongst Phœnicians how a deluge had detached the isle of Chittim from the mainland.
I was already aware that all the tribes that bear in common the name of Hellenes are accustomed to regard the Phœnicians as being of divine origin.
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.
I trust that I may not forget the lessons you have taught me; and if I can render any aid in enabling you to keep the Phœnicians informed of the wonders of the world, I shall be ready to show myself a pupil worthy of my master.
Nothing of the sort," we answered; "we are Phœnicians from the east.
During the night we passed through the group of the Ægades, which lie off Lilybœum, and where the Phœnicians have established a naval station.
Although this may seem an anachronism, it may with some degree of certainty be alleged that the Phœnicians had an idea of using copper for this purpose.
In our fury we swore that we would be avenged, and vowed we would attack the first Phœnicians we should see.
The Phœnicians called the serpent Agathodemon [the good spirit]; and Kneph was the Serpent-God of the Egyptians.
The name of Rhea is also found in the ancient cosmogony of the Phœnicians by Sanchoniathon.
The Phœnicians represented the God Nomu (Kneph or Amun-Kneph) by a serpent.
According to Sanchoniathon, TAAUT, the interpreter of Heaven to men, attributed something divine to the nature of the dragon and serpents, in which the Phœnicians and Egyptians followed him.
The faith of the Phœnicians was an emanation from that ancient worship of the Stars, which in the creed of Zoroaster alone, is connected with a faith in one God.
The Phœnicians drew a belt of colonies and trading stations along the Mediterranean, and were masters of the commerce.
At an early period, the Phœnicians established trading depôts at Marseilles, Nice, and elsewhere along the coast.
The Phœnicians of Tyre and Sidon, and of Carthage, had secured a monopoly of the mineral trade.
Not by any means, by no bribery, by no persuasion, not by torture, could the secret be wrung from the Phœnicians whence they procured the inestimable treasure of tin.
Only it was known that much of it came from the North, and by a trade route through Gaul to the Rhone; but also, and mainly, by means of vessels of the Phœnicians passing through the Straits into the unknown ocean beyond.
This again leads us to view the Phœnicians as the chief medium of intercourse between Egypt and Greece.
I have spoken of the tradition of Atlas; and of the likelihood that the Phœnicians would cast a veil over the regions of which they knew the profitable secrets.
According to the Egyptian tradition there reported, the Phœnicians carried into Greece the priestess who founded the Dodonæan oracle.
There is another tradition in Herodotus, according to which the Phœnicians furnished Egypt with the fleet, which in the time of Necho circumnavigated Africa[242].
On the Phœnicians and the Outer Geography of the Odyssey.
The Canaanites are certainly the same people who are called almost always Phœnicians by the Greeks, of which foreign name no reason can be given, any more than of the oblivion of the true one.
But the strict union which always subsisted between the Phœnicians and Carthaginians, is still more remarkable.
The Phœnicians took advantage of this ignorance; and, by bartering some wares of little value for this precious metal, they amassed infinite wealth.
This custom prevailed long among the Phœnicians and Canaanites, from whom the Israelites borrowed it, though forbidden expressly by heaven.
And this is still more probable, when we consider that both the Hebrews and Phœnicians excelled in this art.
The old Cretan tradition that the Phnicians did not invent the letters of the alphabet, but only changed those already existing, is amply justified; for this seems to have been precisely what they did.
As time has gone on, however, the Phnicians have gradually come to bulk less and less in the view of students of the Ægean problem.
What the Phnicians did was to carry the process of simplification farther still, and to appropriate for their own use out of the elements already existing around them a conveniently short and simple system of signs.
As the Phœnicians traded at so early a period with Spain and other countries, where the kermes are indigenous, it may be readily comprehended how that dye was known in Palestine about and before the time of Moses.
Manetho, during the long dominion of the Phœnicians in Egypt.
The Phœnicians in their colonies, showed no more originality in their work than they did in the mother country, and have been only the intermediary agents between the civilization of the Orient and that of the Occident.
The Phœnicians were thus the pioneers of civilisation in the Eastern Mediterranean.
It is very probable that the story was founded on a tradition among the Phœnicians of the history of Noah, and of the malediction which Ham drew on himself by his undutiful conduct towards his father.
The Phœnicians considered that a voluntary tribute was less expensive than a war against the Pharaohs, and they amply consoled themselves for the diminution of their liberty by getting hold of the maritime commerce of the Delta.
He proved that the Egyptians had developed a relatively complete alphabet (mostly neglecting the vowels, as early Semitic alphabets did also) centuries before the Phœnicians were heard of in history.
Her influence left indelible traces even on the civilisations of western Asia and of the Greek world, partly through the agency of the Phœnicians and Aramæans.
This creation scheme of the Phœnicians has a peculiar interest for the Western world, because of the intimate relations that existed between the Phœnicians and the Jews.
But Herodotus and Diodorus say nothing of this defeat, and speak, on the contrary, of a naval victory of Apries over the Phœnicians and Cypriotes.
Spain had long been known through the explorations and commercial enterprises of the Phœnicians and Greeks, and when it became a part of Roman territory, it was as familiarly known as Gaul or Britain.
Like the Portuguese and the Dutch in China and Japan, first the Phœnicians and afterwards the Ionians had their factories at Memphis and in the cities of the Delta.
In later years the Phœnicians brought it from Spain and the southern shores of Britain.
Are there any examples of pillars like those which the Phœnicians raised before their temples, or the triumphal columns of the Romans, or those reared for commemorative purposes in Paris and other cities of Modern Europe?
Neither Egyptians, Arabs nor Phœnicians reached the true centres of Hindoo civilization; they merely visited those sea-board towns where the mixed population was more occupied with commerce than with intellectual pursuits.
In all probability the result would have been similar to that which ensued when the ancestors of the Greeks began to deal with the more civilized Phœnicians and the people of Asia Minor.
Great numbers of the Phœnicians had established themselves in it, and, after the fall of Jerusalem and Samaria, many Jews followed their example.
She does not seem to know much about the Phœnicians after all, for in iv.
Business must have been carried on in a very leisurely fashion, for it took the Phœnicians a twelvemonth to freight their vessel, and the largest ship of those times cannot have been very large.
The Phœnicians are known in the Odyssey, disliked and distrusted, but they do not seem to be feared as they would surely be if so powerful a maritime nation were already established so near the writer's own abode.
New names were given by the Phœnicians to the forms they had borrowed, from fancied resemblances to objects which, in their language, began with the sound intended, when the original Egyptian names had been forgotten.
This is, in brief, the picture of the doings of the Phœnicians long before the days of history had begun to dawn upon the Aryan nations of the Mediterranean.
The Phœnicians are said by tradition to have invented the manufacture of glass.
From these centres went out that boundless maritime enterprise which made the Phœnicians the trading people of the world.
But of course the Phœnicians must still be reckoned as the great transporters of civilization from Egypt and from Asia to the rest of the world.
Two conjectures as to the method pursued by the Phœnicians in choosing their letters and adapting them to their own language have been made by the learned.
The gradual divergence of the Phœnician characters from their Hieratic parents is easily accounted for by the difference of the material and the instrument employed by the Phœnicians and Egyptians in writing.
It is an interesting fact that the Japanese have dealt with the Chinese system of writing precisely as did the Phœnicians with the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The Phœnicians had been there beforehand, as they were beforehand upon almost every coast in Europe, and had made mercantile stations and established small colonies for the purposes of trading with the Pelasgi of Greece.
The Phœnicians are another race from the same stock who have made their mark in the world.
When the Macedonians had covered more than half the distance between the shore and the wall, the Ph[oe]nicians began to resist their advance.
They found Alexander stretched upon his couch and the two Ph[oe]nicians seated before him.
These Ph[oe]nicians are afraid of their own shadows.
The Ph[oe]nicians hurled shouts of derision at them from the walls across the water, scornfully inviting them to try the strait.
Some say that the cow which was given by the Pythian Apollo as a guide to Kadmus[236] appeared there, and that the place was so called from her; for the Phœnicians call the cow Thor.
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