292 pp, color figures, pb, in English.
Contents:
1. Prologue
2. A New Perspective of the Aegean Bronze Age
3. The Luwians
- 3.1 Who Are the Luwians?
- 3.2 Habitat and Natural Resources
- 3.3 Late Bronze Age Archaeological Sites in Western Asia Minor
- 3.4 Petty States in Western Asia Minor
- 3.5 Luwian Scripts
- 3.6 Linear A Script
- 3.7 The Phaistos Disc
- 3.8 The Missing Link
- 3.9 Why are the Luwians Missing?
4. Bronze Age
- 4.1 Late Bronze Age Shipwrecks
- 4.2 The Mycenaean Culture on the Greek Mainland
- 4.3 Minoan Crete
- 4.4 Hatti – the Hittite Empire
- 4.5 The New Kingdom in Egypt
- 4.6 Petty Kingdoms in Syria and Palestine
5. Troy
- 5.1 The History of Troy
- 5.2 The Investigation of Troy
- 5.3 The Lower Town
- 5.4 Hydro Engineering During the Bronze Age
- 5.5 Descriptions of Ancient Troy
6. The Sea Peoples
- 6.1 The Sea Peoples' Inscriptions and Excavation Results
- 6.2 Hypotheses Regarding the Sea Peoples’ Invasions
- 6.3 The Initial Sea Peoples’ Raids
- 6.4 The Trojan War as a Mycenaean Counterattack
- 6.5 Civil War on the Greek Mainland
7. Iron Age
- 7.1 Migrations at the Beginning of the Iron Age
- 7.2 Caria
- 7.3 Phrygia
- 7.4 Lydia
- 7.5 The Philistines in Canaan and Palestine
- 7.6 Phoenicians
- 7.7 The Etruscan Culture
8. Sources
- 8.1 The Homeric Epics
- 8.2 Non-Homeric Accounts of the Trojan War
- 8.3 Dio Chrysostom
- 8.4 Dictys Cretensis
- 8.5 Dares Phrygius
- 8.6 Quintus of Smyrna
- 8.7 Eusebius of Caesarea
- 8.8 John Malalas
- 8.9 Joseph of Exeter
- 8.10 Benoît de Sainte-Maure
- 8.11 Guido de Columnis
9. Luwian Studies and its Goals
- 9.1 Closing the Research Gap
- 9.2 Proposed Methods
10. Epilogue
11. Appendices
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