The Phoenicians

Cultures of the Past

by Elsa Marston

This appealing series presents historically important cultures from the past ranging from the well-known ancient Greeks to the lesser-known Kingdom of Kush. Each volume examines both the political and the cultural history of an ancient culture.

Genres: History

80 pages, Library Binding

First published November 1, 2001

About the author

Elsa Harik, known professionally as Elsa Marston, is an American author of children's books about the Middle East and North Africa. She died after completing her last book, "I Just Kept Walking."

Reviews

[Sarah Winckler · Rating 3 out of 5]

The use of Hercules where it should have been Herarcles made me question what else might be inaccurate in this book.

[Thom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cultures of the Past series. A good book about the Phoenicians, who were the Tyrians, Byblians and Carthaginians, who were the Canaanites. The worst part of it is, their history was all written by their enemies, who won the wars.

[Fred Kohn · Rating 2 out of 5]

The best part of this book were the pictures. There were a lot of pictures of beautiful ancient Phoenician artifacts. The writing was OK, but it seemed a little unbalanced to me. I wanted to hear more about the history and less about the religion. But then again, maybe that's just me.

[Mira Tabsh]

I Loved the information... I read it for the soul reason of deciding whether our orgin is really Phoenician. I learned a lot more along the way.. I guess yeah we are..;)

[Vaishali · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slightly better than Odjik's book, and more detail on the religions. However, a few searches on Google will get you much, much farther.