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The World of The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms

A Political and Military History

Trevor Bryce author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:15th Mar '12

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In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. In the subsequent Iron Age, numerous cities and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northern Syria, which are generally known today as the 'Neo-Hittite kingdoms'. Bryce's volume gives an account of the military and political history of these kingdoms, moving beyond the Neo-Hittites themselves to the broader Near Eastern world and the states which dominated it during the Iron Age. Divided into three sections, The World of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms looks at the last decades of the empire and the features of these kingdoms and their subsequent treatment under their Anatolian successors. Through a closer look at the individual Neo-Hittite kingdoms and their rulers and a comparison with the contemporary Aramaean states and the other kingdoms of the age - notably the Neo-Assyrian empire - it concludes with a historical synthesis of the Neo-Hittites when the last kingdom was absorbed into the Assyrian provincial administration.

This excellent work wil be the standard treatment of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms for decades to come. * CHOICE *
The book will serve as an essential reference for all scholars dealing with the Neo-Hittite kingdoms. * Lorenzo dâAlfonso, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
extremely readable. * Mark Weeden, Antiquity *
Trevor Bryce must be congratulated for his new contribution to the history of the Ancient Near East. * Federico Giusfredi, Bibliotheca Orientalis *

ISBN: 9780199218721

Dimensions: 240mm x 165mm x 26mm

Weight: 818g

384 pages