RT journal article
T1 “Skilled at Grasping.” The Phoenician Migrant and Exile as a Cautionary Stereotype from Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe.
A1 Fernández Camacho, Pamina
A2 Filología Clásica
K1 Migration
K1 Phoenicians in Classical literature
K1 Isocrates
K1 Justin
K1 Pompeius Trogus
K1 Florián de Ocampo
AB Greco-Roman prejudice towards the long-distance trader is often connected to their view of Phoenicians. Phoenicians constitute “a byword for greed” in the Odyssey, a negative trope, embodying the prejudice and fear evoked by a social class which also existed in Greece and, later, Rome. Here, we investigate a similar process involving the characterization of Phoenicians as political refugees in Classical sources. Like the long-distance traders, such people could evoke feelings of prejudice, especially the fear that they would usurp land or political power from the host community, and the stereotypical Phoenician traits of greed and deception were useful to highlight this.
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
SN 1080-6504, 0004-0975
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33954
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33954
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026