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SIDON Throvgh The Ages
| Author: | Nina Jidjian |
| Category: | Unspecified Category [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Aleph printing |
| ISBN: | 995300840 |
| Release Date: | 01 Nov 2006 |
| Pages: | 350 |
| Rank: | 621,395 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Book Description
Sidon, residence of Persia’s powerful kings and satraps from the sixth to fourth century B.C., surpassed all Phoenician cities.
The kings of Persia maintained a royal park there for pleasure and hunting called paradeisos in Greek texts derived from the old Persian pardes, that means "garden". This has given rise to our modern term "paradise", a place of beauty and delight.
Sidon has suffered from clandestine excavations over the centuries that have resulted in the despoliation of many of its necropolises. Valuable works of art have found their way into private collections, the Musee du Louvre and the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul including the magnificent so-called "Sarcophagus of Alexander" that illustrates Greek genius in sculpture and polychromy. Fortunately, the largest known collection in the world of marble anthropoid sarcophagi is presently in Beirut National Museum.
The temple of Eshmoun, Sidon’s healing god, yielded marble statuettes of baby boys whose parents entreated the god for the cure of their son. Among them is the son of a king of Sidon, Ba’alchillem. Curiously enough only one statuette represented a little girl.
According to Strabo, Geography 16.2.24, (first century A.D.): "The Sidonians are skilled in many beautiful arts.. besides this they are philosophers in the sciences of astronomy and arithmetic… And if one must believe Poseidonius, the ancient dogma about atoms originated with Mochus, a Sidonian."
This fascinating book presents Sidon to the reader from the fourth millennium B.C. to this day, a unique journey through the ages in the company of Nina Jidejian.
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