The Hattian and Hittite Civilizations
Author : Ekrem Akurgal
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN :
Historical Dictionary of the Hittites
Author : Charles Burney
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2004-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0810865645
Book Description
This Dictionary covers a civilization largely forgotten until recently. This dictionary includes hundreds of entries on important persons, places, essential institutions, and the significant aspects of the society, economy, material culture, and warfare of this ancient people. A 16-page photospread, introductory essay, chronology, and bibliography complement the dictionary entries. For general readers and scholars alike who are interested in ancient history.
The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire
Author : Archibald Henry Sayce
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 1890-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1465540016
Book Description
The Hittites were an Anatolian people living in what is now Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon. The empire started in the 18th century BCE, peaking in the 14th century BCE and finally trailing off around 1180 BCE with the collapse of the Bronze Age. Author Sayce traces the history of the Hittite people, attempting to demonstrate that this was an empire of significance that is not afforded the credit it deserves. The book begins with an analysis of the references to the Hittite people in The Bible, which is an oft-cited source of information throughout Sayce's work. Divided into chapters, the book goes on to explore topics such as Hittite monuments, the Hittite Empire, Hittite cities, Hittite religion and art, and the trade and industry of the Hittities, amongst other topics. Several illustrations are included, primarily of Hittite artifacts. The book concludes with a detailed index.
A Hittite Chrestomathy
Author : Edgar H. Sturtevant
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725280167
Book Description
The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor
Author : James G. Macqueen
Publisher : Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 9780891585206
Book Description
The Hittites were an Indo-European-speaking people who established a kingdom in Anatolia (modern Turkey) almost 4,000 years ago. They rose to become one of the great powers of the ancient Middle Eastern world by conquering Babylon - and were destroyed in the wake of the movements of the enigmatic Sea Peoples around 1180 BC. Macqueen's study investigates such intriguing topics as the origins of the Hittites, the sources of the metals which were so vital to their success, and their relations with their contemporaries in the Aegean world, the Trojans and the Mycenaean Greeks.
In the Land of a Thousand Gods
Author : Christian Marek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0691182906
Book Description
This monumental book provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. In this English-language edition of the critically acclaimed German book, Christian Marek masterfully employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money, the influential Greek writers of the Second Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the gladiatorial arena, and more.
Life and Society in the Hittite World
Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0199275882
Book 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.
Ancient Religions
Author : Sarah Iles JOHNSTON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674039181
Book Description
Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. This collection of essays, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in the Ancient World, offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world.
Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions
Author : Annick Payne
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589836588
Book Description
Hieroglyphic Luwian belongs to the Anatolian group of ancient languages and was inscribed primarily on stone, using an indigenous Anatolian pictorial writing system. These Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions were written over a period of centuries in the region of Anatolia and northern Syria. Their authors were primarily the rulers of the so-called Neo-Hittite states, contemporaries and neighbors of early Israel. This volume collects some of the most important and representative of the inscriptions in transliteration and translation, organized by genre. Each text is accompanied by relevant information on provenance, dating, and other points of interest that will engage specialist and nonspecialist alike.
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction
Author : Amanda H. Podany
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0195377990
Book Description
This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-shaking changes that marked this era include such fundamental inventions as the wheel and the plow and intellectual feats such as the inventions of astronomy, law, and diplomacy.
