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The Luwians
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Edited by:
Craig Melchert
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2003
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The Luwians played at least as important a role as the Hittites in the history of the Ancient Near East during the second and first millennia BCE, but for various reasons they have been overshadowed by and even confused with their more famous relatives and neighbours. Redressing this imbalance, the present volume by an international team of scholars offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art appraisal of the Luwians, the first of its kind in English. A brief introduction sets the context and confronts the problem of defining 'the Luwians'. Following chapters describe their prehistory, history, writing and language, religion, and material culture.
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H. Craig Melchert, Ph.D. (1977) in Linguistics, Harvard University, is Professor of Linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published extensively on the Indo-European languages of Anatolia, including Anatolian Historical Phonology (Rodopi, 1994).
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eBook published on:
April 1, 2003
eBook ISBN:
9789047402145
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Main content:
420
eBook ISBN:
9789047402145
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in the history, languages, religion, and art of the Ancient Near East, as well as Indo-Europeanists, Hellenists and Biblical scholars.
