All peoples inherit foundational or exemplary stories, including the Lebanese, whose myths date back to their ancestors — the Phoenicians. The history of Phoenicia is little known. The people who invented the alphabet left few written records. Nevertheless, cities such as Byblos, Beirut, Saida and Tyre attest, through their vestiges, to a glorious past. Phoenicia is part of the history of the great powers that would subsequently dominate it: Alexander the Great’s Greece, and the Roman Empire. Famous Phoenician myths such as the union of Adonis, citizen of Byblos, with the goddess Aphrodite; the myth of Hercules and his dog finding the murex on a beach in Tyre; and the abduction of Europa in these very same locations have entered more or less literally into Greco-Roman mythology. Mounira Al Solh also pays tribute to this rich multimillennial and still thriving cultural heritage.