Life and Society in the Hittite World

by Bryce, Trevor

• ISBN13: 9780199241705
• ISBN10: 0199241708
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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). 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Abbreviations	ix
List of Hittite Kings	xi
Maps	xiii
Introduction	1	(7)
Synopsis of Hittite History	8	(261)
King, Court, and Royal Officials	11	(21)
The People and the Law	32	(24)
The Scribe	56	(16)
The Farmer	72	(15)
The Merchant	87	(11)
The Warrior	98	(21)
Marriage	119	(15)
The Gods	134	(29)
The Curers of Diseases	163	(13)
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife	176	(11)
Festivals and Rituals	187	(24)
Myth	211	(19)
The Capital	230	(27)
Links across the Wine-Dark Sea	257	(12)
Notes	269	(24)
Bibliography	293	(9)
Index	302