Bryce Trevor. Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age

Routledge, 2003. — 244 pp.Offering fascinating insights into the people and politics of the ancient near Eastern kingdoms, Trevor Bryce uses the letters of the five Great Kings of Egypt, Babylon, Hatti, Mitanni and Assyria as the focus of a fresh look at this turbulent and volatile region in the late Bronze Age.Numerous extracts from the letters are constantly interwoven into the fabric of narrative and discussion, and this lively approach allows us to witness history through the eyes of the people who lived it, revealing the personalities and reactions of kings, queens, princes, princesses and royal officials more than 3500 years ago to the current events of the day.Trevor Bryce is Honorary Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Australia. He has published over 130 articles and many books including Life and Society in the Hittite World (2004), The Kingdom of the Hittites (new edition, 2005), The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History (2012), Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age (2014), Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand-Year History (2014), Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction (2016) and Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).