Название: Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites
Автор: Trevor Bryce
Издательство: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 1788312376
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 301
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 4,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction by enemy forces; their Anatolian homeland occupied a remote region, with no navigable rivers; and they were cut off from the sea. Perhaps most seriously, they suffered chronic under-population and sometimes devastating plague. How, then, can the rise and triumph of this ancient imperium be explained, against seemingly insuperable odds?
In his lively and unconventional treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over three thousand years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites social, religious and political culture and offers new solutions to many unsolved questions.