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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Trevor Bryce |
| ISBN: | 0199241708 9780199241705 0199260478 9780199260478 |
| OCLC Number: | 49518946 |
| Description: | xii, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Synopsis of Hittite history -- King, court, and royal officials -- The people and the law -- The scribe -- The farmer -- The merchant -- The warrior -- Marriage -- The gods -- The curers of disease -- Death, burial, and the afterlife -- Festivals and rituals -- Myth -- The capital -- Links across the wine-dark sea. |
| Responsibility: | Trevor Bryce. |
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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 Read more...
