Luwian Civilization
Ege
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 Glossary Sources Bibliography Picture credits
