Canaanite Navigators Famous as Sidonians Then Phoenicians of Phoenix Phonics & Tyrians of Tyre After the Ice Age

When Homer circa 700 b. c. penned the legends of the Trojan War (circa 1190 b. c.) and the travels of Ulysses afterwards (the Iliad and the Odyssey), he wrote of the Sidonians not calling them Tyrians or Phoenicians because Tyre, although helpful in building the Temple in Jerusalem circa 950 b. c., did not become the dominant port of Phoenicia until Classical Greek times, Phoenicia named for Phoenix a son of Agenor who lived circa 1400 b. c. and spread phonetic writing to the Mediterranean.