Life and Society in the Hittite World
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 September 2004
- ISBN 9780199275885
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 216x138x18 mm
- Weight 413 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps; 14 in-text figures 0
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Short description:
The Hittites were an ancient people (of Indo-European connection) of Asia Minor and Syria, who flourished from 1600 to 1200 BC. Trevor Bryce uses the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries to examine their society and civilization. This book 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 their rituals, to attend an audience with the Great King, and to follow his progress in festival processions to the holy places of the Hittite land.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Synopsis
King, Court, and Royal Officials
The People and the Law
The Scribe
The Farmer
The Merchant
The Warrior
Marriage
The Gods
The Curers of Diseases
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife
Festivals and Rituals
Myth
The Capital
Links across the Wine-Dark Sea
