Trevor Bryce is the most successful - and responsible - popularizer of Anatolian studies active today. An authority on the Luwians of the second millennium and Lycia of the first, he has already produced a highly readable history of the Hittites and has now presented us with a survey of Hittite culture.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Combining lucidity with scholarly rigour and displaying an informed and thoughtful response to the topic, this well-written book will be of particular value to university students and ancient historians. It deserves also to find a place in the wider market.

Times Higher Education Supplement

A readable and up-to-date synthesis which can introduce the wider public to the Hittites as a human society, the author has provided this in a masterly way ... Bryce gets behind the mask of the official records, and gives us the Hittites' inner thoughts ... thoughtful and informative book.

John Ray, Times Literary Supplement

In dealing with a wide range of aspects of the life, activities, and customs of the Late Bronze Age Hittite world, this book complements the treatment of Hittite military and political history presented by the author in The Kingdom of the Hittites (OUP, 1998). It aims to convey to the reader a sense of what it was like to live amongst the people of the Hittite world, to participate in their celebrations, to share their crises, to meet them in the streets of the capital or in their homes, to experience the sights, sounds, and smells of a healing ritual, to attend an audience with the Great King, and to follow his progress in festival processions to the holy places of the Hittite land. Through quotations from the original sources and through the word pictures to which these give rise, the book aims at recreating, as far as is possible, the daily lives and experiences of a people who for a time became the supreme political and military power in the ancient Near East.
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Employing scholarship and archaeological discoveries, this book examines the society and civilization of the Hittites. Through quotations and through the word pictures, it aims at recreating the daily lives and experiences of a people who for a time became the supreme political and military power in the ancient Near East.
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Introduction ; Synopsis ; 1. King, Court, and Royal Officials ; 2. The People and the Law ; 3. The Scribe ; 4. The Farmer ; 5. The Merchant ; 6. The Warrior ; 7. Marriage ; 8. The Gods ; 9. The Curers of Diseases ; 10. Death, Burial, and the Afterlife ; 11. Festivals and Rituals ; 12. Myth ; 13. The Capital ; 14. Links across the Wine-Dark Sea
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`Review from other book by this author enable every student to quickly familiarize him - or herself with the course of Hittite history and its problems without getting lost. ... Bryce offers an ongoing and often gripping narrative ... and offers ... accessible overview.' Theo van den Hout, Bibliotheca Orientalis LVII `the author has crafted a concise and readable narrative of the events which make up the kingdom's five-hundred-year history. He illustrates his points and buttresses his arguments with well-chosen excerpts from Hittite sources ... Beyond its full coverage of the course of events in second-millennium Anatolia, the real strength of The Kingdom of the Hittites is that Bryce looks at the world of the Hittites with the eye of a true historian ... This book will be of great value to the Hittite specialist and to his/her students, as well as to the scholar of other regions and periods of the ancient world who wishes to become acquainted with the story of the first masters of Anatolia.' Gary Beckham, University of Michigan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 18/04/99 `Bryce's study is one of those rare books that successfully fills a gap in scholarship ... Bryce has provided the first comprehensive history of the Hittites to appear in English in half a century ... This will be the standard resource on Anatolia in the second millennium BCE for decades to come. An outstanding work that belongs in all university libraries.' S. M. Burnstein, CHOICE `Bryce's volume represents an authoritative, comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the political and military history of the Hittite kingdom ... it is currently peerless and now imperative reading for any serious inquiry on the Hittites by scholars of the ancient Near East.' David F. Graf, University of Miami, Religious Studies Review, vol 25, no 3, July 99
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Fresh approach to the study of Hittite society and civilization, recreating life in the Hittite world from the point of view of those who actually lived in it Uses recent scholarship and material from archaeological discoveries Extensive quotation from recent translations of original sources Generous number of illustrations
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Trevor Bryce is Honorary Research Consultant, University of Queensland, Australia
Fresh approach to the study of Hittite society and civilization, recreating life in the Hittite world from the point of view of those who actually lived in it Uses recent scholarship and material from archaeological discoveries Extensive quotation from recent translations of original sources Generous number of illustrations
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199241705
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
484 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
300

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Biografisk notat

Trevor Bryce is Honorary Research Consultant, University of Queensland, Australia