The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture (EDPC) is the

result of a wide-ranging international project and is intended to be an

in-depth and up-to-date standard reference work for Phoenician studies.

It is a series in the form of an encyclopaedia with the structure of a

dictionary, comprising about 2,000 entries, written by circa 200

contributors from 20 different countries.
Current knowledge on the

Phoenicians and Carthaginians (with close attention to their various

interactions with other cultures) will be presented as a sequence of

themed volumes, all closely interrelated, dealing respectively with

religion, language and written sources, socio-economic life, and

archaeological sites of both the Levant and the Central and Western

Mediterranean. As part of a collection, each volume should be considered

as belonging to a set: in one sense independent but at the same time

inseparable from the others in respect of both the amount of information

and the network of cross-references linking the various lemmata.

The present volume, dedicated to historical characters, is a

compendium of historical and historically documented individuals,

arranged alphabetically and organized using criteria that are meant to

be as consistent as possible. Like the thematic volumes to follow, the

present volume is a reference work: it is based on a piece by piece

reconstruction of the whole of `Phoenician' history (understood in its

widest sense) through its various protagonists at every level.