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Warriors of Anatolia - Trevor Bryce

Warriors of Anatolia

A Concise History of the Hittites

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34885-1 (ISBN)
CHF 27,90 inkl. MwSt
In this lively treatment of one of antiquity’s most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over 3,000 years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites’ social, religious and political culture and offers new solutions to many unsolved questions. Revealing them to have been masters of chariot warfare, who almost inflicted a disastrous defeat on Rameses II at the Battle of Qadesh (1274 BCE), he shows the Hittites also to have been devout worshippers of a pantheon of storm-gods and many other gods, and masters of a new diplomatic system which bolstered their authority for centuries.

Drawing authoritatively both on texts and on ongoing archaeological discoveries, while at the same time offering imaginative reconstructions of the Hittite world, Bryce argues that while the development of a warrior culture was essential, not only for the Empire’s expansion but for its very survival, this by itself was not enough. The range of skills demanded of the Hittite ruling class went way beyond mere military prowess, while there was much more to the Hittites themselves than just skill in warfare. This engaging volume reveals the Hittites in their full complexity, including the festivals they celebrated; the temples and palaces they built; their customs and superstitions; the crimes they committed; their social hierarchy, from king to slave; and the marriages and pre-nuptial agreements they contracted. It takes the reader on a journey which combines epic grandeur, spectacle and pageantry with an understanding of the intimacies and idiosyncrasies of Hittite daily life.

Trevor Bryce is Honorary Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. His many books include Life and Society in the Hittite World (2002), The Kingdom of the Hittites (new edition, 2005), The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History (2012), Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age (2014), Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand-Year History (2014) and Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction (2016).

List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Rediscovering a Lost World

Chapter 2: How Do The Hittites Tell Us About Themselves?

Chapter 3: The Dawn of the Hittite Era

Chapter 4: The Legacy of an Ailing King

Chapter 5: ‘Now Bloodshed Has Become Common’

Chapter 6: The Setting for an Empire

Chapter 7: Building an Empire

Chapter 8: Lion or Pussycat?

Chapter 9: From Near Extinction to the Threshold of International Supremacy

Chapter 10: The Greatest Kingdom of Them All

Chapter 11: Intermediaries of the Gods: The Great Kings of Hatti

Chapter 12: King by Default

Chapter 13: Health, Hygiene and Healing

Chapter 14: Justice and the Commoner

Chapter 15: No Sex Please, We’re Hittite

Chapter 16: Women, Marriage and Slavery

Chapter 17: War with Egypt

Chapter 18: All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men

Chapter 19: The Man Who Would Be King

Chapter 20: Partners in Power: The Great Queens of Hatti

Chapter 21: City of Temples and Bureaucrats: The Royal Capital

Chapter 22: An Elite Fraternity: the Club of Royal Brothers

Chapter 23: The Empire’s Struggle for Survival

Chapter 24: Hatti’s Divine Overlords

Chapter 25: Death of an Empire

Appendix 1: Rulers of Hatti
Appendix 2: Outline of Main Events in Hittite History

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 40 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-350-34885-6 / 1350348856
ISBN-13 978-1-350-34885-1 / 9781350348851
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