1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire
List of Maps. List of Figures. Abbreviations. Maps. Introduction. Historical Overview. Alphabetical Entries. Appendices I – General Chronology II – The Major Royal Dynasties III – Urartian Chronology IV – Greek and Roman Authors. Glossary. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Trevor Bryce is an Honorary Research Consultant at the University of Queensland and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has held positions as Reader in Classics and Ancient History, University of Queensland, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of New England (Australia), and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Lincoln University, New Zealand. He is the author of numerous works on the ancient Near East. His most recent publications are The Kingdom of the Hittites (2005), and The Trojans and their Neighbours (Routledge, 2006).
'A remarkable amount of information is clearly and elegantly presented in a single handsome, sturdily bound, volume ... this is an outstanding reference work which belongs in any collection dealing with ancient history, whether for students, scholars, or the elusive general reader.' – Reference Reviews
