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LIFE AND SOCIETY IN THE HITTITE WORLD
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| By: |
Trevor Bryce |
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Hardback |
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£59.00 |
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£51.63 |
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£7.37 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199241708 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199241705 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 September, 2002 |
| Pages: |
300 |
| 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 orin 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
2 maps, numerous halftones and line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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