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...

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Published in:	Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 141; no. 4; pp. 749 - 767
Main Authors:	Burman, Annie, Boyes, Philip J.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA) Oct-Dec2021
Subjects:	Atlantica (Book) Rudbeck, Olof Civilization Phoenicians Scaliger, Joseph Bochart, Samuel
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost