1177 B. C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

Ressemble à une bande dessinée plus qu'un livre d'histoire, mais c'est pour le cours de mon fils.

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Espectacular. He aprendido más en este cómic que en en todo lo que había leído anteriormente respecto a la edad de bronce tardía incluyendo el propio libro en el que está basado! Para los que no somos muy inteligentes o nos cuesta similar la historia de ese periodo oscuro y lejano y a la vez fascinante.

Great fun and well worthwhile, the artwork may not be to the standard of either Spiderman or the Beano, but it does its job and includes redraws of lots of original references. I liked the running gag of the Peleset hat.There is more here than the text version of 1177 BC, where the author disingenuously suggested that there was a fixed chronology for the Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty. There are extra dates in the graphic version which bring problem areas to the fore. In particular the identification of Ankhesenamun as Dahamunzu (page 93). The context of the successful Hittite siege of Carchemish (error on page 56 of the text version) links to the final stages of Suppiluliuma’s Syrian war in Akhenaten’s final years, as documented by Amarna Letters: EA 53, EA 54, EA 140, EA 151, EA 170, EA194, et al.Jacob van Dijk presented evidence for reducing Horemheb’s reign length from 27/28 to 14/15 years if these years are removed from Egypt they must also be removed from Hatti and are about the same as the years between Meritaten (who I favour as Dahamunza) and Ankhesenamun.Jared Miller wrote a paper (2008) establishing contact between Mursilis II and Horemheb over the revolt by Tette of Nuhasse.Suppiluliuma I is now shown, page 244, acceding after Akhenaten despite EA 41 – the Hittite Great King would not have had good relations with any pharaoh after he annexed Ugarit, Amurru and Kadesh at the end of Akhenaten’s reign.Contra page 111, Muwattalis was the defender of Kadesh and Ramesses II was the aggressor, despite Benteshina’s surrender to the force majure of Seti I.1177 BC makes much of Homer’s doubtfully historic Trojan War but fails to mention “The Cretan Lie” from the Odyssey, almost a parallel text to that of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu.1177 BC omits Sea Peoples raids in the Amarna Period (EA 38) and the capture of Sherden by Prince Rameses, who later served him at Kadesh (Kitchen p.40/41), while failing to clarify their solely mercenary role in the attempted Libyan migration in the time of Merneptah.Typo on page 236: the wrong Suppiluliuma and the wrong date. I take Hannuti to be pro-Hittite, ousted by pro-Mitanni (later pro-Egyptian) Akizzi.

It is not clear who is going to read it. Children will not read it, and adults will read the actual book. Also, "The Egyptian girl scrip", please...