Love, War, and Diplomacy : The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cline, Eric H.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near East In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction: An Unexpected Discovery

Part I. The Players

1. Dealers and Destructions

2. Budge

3. Sayce

4. The Young Berliners

Part II. The Fellowship of the Kings

5. Šarru Rabû

6. An Arzawan Alliance?

7. All's Fair in Love and War (and Diplomacy)

8. The Hand of Nergal

Part III. The Rules and the Race

9. No No Necho

10. Lost in Translation

11. Flights of Fancy

12. Winckler and Abel

Part IV. Lab'ayu and Sons, Inc

13. The Lab'ayu Affair

14. The Sons of Lab'ayu

Part V. The Game: Winners and Losers

15. Jerusalem, O Jerusalem

16. Publish or Perish

17. Bezold and Budge, Finally

18. Facts and Alternative Facts

Part VI. Amurru, Byblos, and Jerusalem

19. The Dog of His House

20. Triple-A Roster

21. Gaslighting the Pharaoh

22. If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem

Part VII. The Social Networks and Globalized World of the Late Bronze Age

23. It's a Small World After All

24. Three Degrees of Separation

Epilogue: After Amarna

Dramatis Personae

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-27452-5

0-691-27409-6

OCLC:

1527724681