Hattusili, the Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire

Trevor Bryce is Honorary Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Australia. He has published over 130 articles and many books including Life and Society in the Hittite World (2004), The Kingdom of the Hittites (new edition, 2005), The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History (2012), Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age (2014), Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand-Year History (2014), Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction (2016) and Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

List of Maps and Figures
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: ‘He Will Not Live Long’
Chapter 2: Our Sources
Chapter 3: Benefactors of a Young Prince
Chapter 4: The Prince Goes to Court
Chapter 5: Unseating the Rightful King
Chapter 6: ‘And She Gave Us the Love of Husband and Wife’
Chapter 7: ‘Uneasy Lies the Head....’
Chapter 8: The Eternal Treaty
Chapter 9: The Royal Mail
Chapter 10: Managing an Empire
Chapter 11: ‘Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts’
Chapter 12: ‘Bleating in Cuneiform Across the Wine-Dark Sea’
Chapter 13: A Poisoned Chalice
Chapter 14: Hattusili’s Reign in Review

Appendix 1: Chronicle of Events
Appendix 2: The Economy

Notes
Bibliography
Index