Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
accountable for their daughter’s conduct, evidently because she’sa free agent, entirely independent of parental authority. As we ...
society, there were laws governing their treatment and their rights. There are no such laws today because officially slavery no ...
We have noted that in many ancient societies, the treatment of slaves was subject to legal oversight. Hammurabic and Hittite soc ...
the supply of males available for physically demanding, labour- intensive activities like work on a family estate. One imagines ...
a generous owner, or earning and saving funds as a tenant farmer of his owner. He might then have been able to afford to‘buy’afr ...
what I have already suggested. Perhaps by looking at the matter afresh you may do better. Suggestions welcome! There is of cours ...
We know this from letters exchanged between Puduhepa and Ramesses. Some of the exchanges were acrimonious, with the pharaoh rebu ...
the reign of her stepson Arnuwanda and part of the reign of her younger stepson Mursili, before she wasfinally banished from the ...
participants in many religious festivals, the positions they occupied were probably well down the priestly hierarchy– even in ca ...
combination with all appropriate rituals to gain the goodwill of the gods. Given that the kingdom of Hatti almost certainly suff ...
CHAPTER 17 War with Egypt THEAMURRITE TERRORIST CLAN B efore reading any further, have a look again at Map 6.1, and note the loc ...
disloyal to him. He got away with this for quite some time until his career was suddenly ended. We don’t know the details but it ...
occasion, this time he realised that if he returned to Egypt, the likelihood of his being detained there indefinitely–or worse–w ...
made–to shift the seat of his empire to a new location several hundred kilometres to the south of Hattusa. It was called Tarhunt ...
NEW PROBLEMS IN THE WEST Muwattalli had also to deal with unwelcome new developments in the west. One of these was the emergence ...
victory for himself and a smashing defeat for the Hittites. He does so with lots of rhetorical bombast, but even shorn of this, ...
Figure 17.1 Ramesses II, Abu Simbel. ...
But then came horrifying news. Two genuine Hittite scouts sent to spy out Ramesses’position were captured, and under torture rev ...
In subsequent years, Ramesses did in fact try to bolster his international reputation by further campaigns which took him deep i ...
CHAPTER 18 All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men: The Hittite Military Machine 1 H ow did they do it? Before explaining w ...
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