Brotherhood of Kings How International Relations Shaped the Ancient near East

Name: Brotherhood of Kings How International Relations Shaped the Ancient near East
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ISBN: 9780199858682

ISBN-10: 0199858683

ISBN-13: 9780199858682

Edition: 2012

Authors: Amanda H. Podany

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Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day.Allowing them to speak in their own words, Podany reveals how these leaders and their ambassadors devised a remarkably sophisticated system of diplomacy and trade. What the kings forged, as they saw it, was a relationship of friends-brothers-across hundreds of miles. Over centuries they worked out ways for their ambassadors to travel safely to one another's capitals, they created formal rules of interaction and ways to work out disagreements, they agreed to…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



A Word about Chronology and Translation


Cast of Characters


Time Line


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Early Dynastic Period and Akkadian Empire, 1500-2000 BCE



The First Evidence for Diplomacy ("I am your brother and you are my brother")



Traders and Ships from Different Lands ("At the wharf of Akkad he made moor ships")



The Old Babylonian Period, 2000-1595 BCE



War and Allegiance ("I have always done good things for him and his heart knows the good deeds that I have done for him")



Long Journeys away from Home ("Who is there who would sell lapis-lazuli?")



A Time of Crisis and Change, 1595-1400 BCE



Attack on Babylon by a Distant Enemy ("I sent to a far-off land")



A Clash between Expanding Empires ("Prepare yourselves! Make your weapons ready! For one will engage in combat with that wretched foe in the morning")



Diplomatic Overtures between the Great Powers ("A notable event! The like of this occurrence had not been heard of since the time of the demigods"



The Amarna Age, 1400-1300 BCE



Brother Kings United and at Peace ("My brother, whom I love and who loves me")



Diplomatic Marriages ("We, between us, are one, the Hurrian land and the land of Egypt ")



Luxury Goods from Eveyrwhere ("The gold is much. Among the kings there are brotherhood, amity, peace, and good relations")



A Crisis in the Brotherhood ("My father became hostile")



The End of an Empire and the Restoration of Peace ("My ancestors and your ancestors made a mutual declaration of friendship")


Epilogue


Abbreviations


Notes


Further Reading


Bibliography


Index