Books by Carolina Lopez-Ruiz

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introduced their alphabet, art, technology, and gods to places as far as off as Iberia. Carolina Lopez-Ruiz highlights the enduring Phoenician imprint, displacing the Hellenocentric model of the ancient world.

The essays in this book present new research on the interactions between Phoenicians, Greeks and indigenous people in the Iberian Peninsula during the first millennium BC.

Aiming to bring the study of Greek and Near Eastern cosmogonies to a new level, this book analyzes themes such as succession myths, expressions of poetic inspiration, and claims to cosmic knowledge, as well as the role of itinerant specialists in the transmission of theogonies.