When the Phoenicians Were Swedish: Rudbeck’s Atlantica and Phoenician Studies.
Olof Rudbeck’s Atlantica (1679–1702) is a characteristically wide-ranging example of Early Modern scholarship in which the author draws on a compendious assortment of evidence to argue that his native Sweden was the cradle of human civilization. Within this discussion, he devotes particular attentio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 141; no. 4; pp. 749 - 767 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Oct-Dec2021
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