Introduction
Synopsis
1: King, Court, and Royal Officials
2: The People and the Law
3: The Scribe
4: The Farmer
5: The Merchant
6: The Warrior
7: Marriage
8: The Gods
9: The Curers of Diseases
10: Death, Burial, and the Afterlife
11: Festivals and Rituals
12: Myth
13: The Capital
14: Links across the Wine-Dark Sea
Trevor Bryce is Honorary Research Consultant, University of Queensland, Australia
Trevor Bryce is the most successful - and responsible - popularizer of Anatolian studies active today. An authority on the Luwians of the second millennium and Lycia of the first, he has already produced a highly readable history of the Hittites and has now presented us with a survey of Hittite culture. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Combining lucidity with scholarly rigour and displaying an informed and thoughtful response to the topic, this well-written book will be of particular value to university students and ancient historians. It deserves also to find a place in the wider market. Times Higher Education Supplement A readable and up-to-date synthesis which can introduce the wider public to the Hittites as a human society, the author has provided this in a masterly way ... Bryce gets behind the mask of the official records, and gives us the Hittites' inner thoughts ... thoughtful and informative book. John Ray, Times Literary Supplement
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