The Kingdom of the Hittites - Brossura

Bryce, Trevor R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199240108 ISBN 13: 9780199240104

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 1999

Riassunto

This text presents a comprehensive history of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of the Hittites, and the role it played within the context of the ancient Near Eastern world. From their capital, Hattusa, in central Anatolia, the Hittite kings ruled a vast network of subject territories and vassal states reaching from the Aegean coast of Anatolia through Syria to the river Euphrates. In the 14th century BC the Hittites became the supreme political and military power in the Near East. How did they achieve their supremacy? How successful were they in maintaining it? What brought about their collapse and disappearance? In seeking to answer these questions, the book begins with an account of the Hittites predecessors in Anatolia, particularly in the early centuries of the second millennium, traces the rise and development of the Hittite kingdom over a period of some five hundred years, and ends with the events which followed in the wake of the kingdoms collapse. Translations from the original texts are a particular feature of the book, thus on many issues the Hittites and their contemporaries are allowed to speak to the modern reader for themselves.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Trevor Bryce is Honorary Research Consultant, University of Queensland, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Product Description:

Book by Bryce Trevor

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0199240108
• ISBN 13: 9780199240104
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 481