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Suppiluliumas I and the Amarna pharaohs: Biographical novel of the greatest Hittite king. From palace coups in the lost city of Hattusas to treachery in the Egyptian court of Tutankhamun, I, the Sun, the saga of the Hittite King Suppiluliumas, rings with authenticity and the passion of a world that existed fourteen hundred years before the birth of Christ. They called him Great King, Favorite of the Storm God, the Valiant. He conquered more than forty nations and brought fear and war to the very doorstep of Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt, but he could not conquer the one woman he truly loved.
- Sales Rank: #200194 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-27
- Released on: 2013-04-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"I, the Sun is a masterpiece of historical fiction. �It tells a great story while accurately creating the world of the Hittites and their best known emperor." -- Jerry Pournelle "The author is familiar with every aspect of Hittite culture." -�O.R. Gurney, Hittite scholar and author of "The Hittites"�
From the Author
Writing the biographical novel "I, the Sun" was one of my greatest challenges and joys. When I read the first-person annals written by this king, he spoke to me like no other. �I engaged Calvert Watkins, then at Harvard, as my consultant and delved into every aspect of Suppiluliumas' life and times. �My greatest satisfaction, once the work was done and sold to a publisher, came in a letter from ORM Gurney, who remarked to my then-publisher, Bantam, that "The author must be a student of Gutterbock's. �She is familiar with every aspect of Hittite culture."This book brought me more than a challenge in scholarship. �Suppiluliumas was a brilliant leader, strategist, tactician; a passionate lover who fathered more than 40 "kings." His story is one of a real hero. �He brought the ancient world to life for me, and I hope he does the same for you.Living for years with Suppiluliumas in my head yielded other unexpected pleasures: �once done with his book, I missed him and his world so greatly I created Tempus and the Sacred Band of Stepsons, my favorite fantasy character and series. �So my Hittite king started me on the road where I later found more heroism, loyalty, courage and passion, if of a rarefied kind. �What I learned from Suppiluliumas taught me lessons that served me well in the political snake-pits of Washington and when dealing with the military. �I will forever be grateful to him for speaking to me across the centuries, always direct, but always inspiring me to risk more, do more, be more. �On the cover of this edition of "I, the Sun" is Suppiluliumas' seal. �I find that fitting. �-- jem
From the Back Cover
"I, the Sun is a masterpiece of historical fiction. �It tells a great story while accurately creating the world of the Hittites and their best known emperor." -- Jerry Pournelle A novel of the empire of Hatti. �From the annals of an historic Hittite emperor comes this saga of kingship and greatness, love and death, politics and treachery in the second millennium BCE.
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67 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
Biographical Novel of the great Hittite King, Suppiluliumas
By Kiwi
I've always been interested in the Hittites but really, there's very little available other than a very few textbooks on the subject. For those who know nothing about the Hittites, this is a really really really (you get the idea) good historical novel that manages to get you well and truely under the skin of Suppiluliumas ("Pure Spring"), King of Hatti and gives you a good in depth exposure to Hittite culture and the Hittite people while at the same time giving you a good history lesson. As the previous reviewer has noted, the book is liberally laced with quotes from Suppiluliumas' own Annals. Every character in the novel bar one is based on real people who are historically documented (there are a lot of Hittite clay tablets that have survived) - fascinating in itself, and the author includes a short bibilography at the end.
In all honesty, this is one of the best historical novels I've read and I wish I'd come across it sooner, I'd rate it up there with Mary Renault's Alexander Trilogy (Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy and Funeral Games), Wallace Breem's Eagle in the Snow or Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset as far as historical novels go.
For those more or less unaware of the Hittites, they were an Indo-Aryan people who set up a kingdom centered at Hattusa on the Central Anatolian plateau around the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height around the 14th century BC, encompassing a large part of Anatolia, north-western Syria about as far south as the mouth of the Litani River (a territory known as Amqu), and eastward into upper Mesopotamia. Under Suppiluliumas and his immediate successor, the Empire was extended to most of Anatolia and parts of Syria and Canaan, so that by 1300 BC the Hittites were bordering on the Egyptian sphere of influence. After approx. 1180 BC, the empire disintegrated into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some surviving until as late as the 8th century BC.
Although established in the Bronze Age, the Hittites were forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 14th century BC. Recent excavations have discovered evidence of iron tool production dating back at least as far as the 20th century BC. Hittite weapons were generally made from bronze though as iron was rare and precious. The Hittites were famous for their skill in building and using chariots, a skill which gave them a military advantage. In fact, the first battle recorded in any real detail is the great chariot battle of Kadesh (read (Qadesh 1300 BC: Clash of the Warrior Kings (Osprey Military Campaign Series)), fought between the Hittities (commanded by the grandson of the subject of this book, Suppiluliumas, and the Eqyptians in 1274 BC.
For more light reading on this subject for the casual reader, I'd recommend the following:
Hittite Warrior
Hittite Fortifications c.1650-700 BC (Fortress)
Bronze Age War Chariots (New Vanguard)
For other works of fiction set in Hatti, you might like to try the following
The Hittite (the main character is a Hittite, but the real story is about the Fall of Troy using an outsider to give a different viewpoint)
Hittite Must Die by Moshe Shamir
Hittite Warrior (Living History Library)
The Hittite by Noel Gerson - An age of violent splendor... sensual paganism... barbaric cruelty...At the head of the onrushing Hittite legions was Lord Marduk. He was young, he had great wealth, high rank and his wife, Arinna was the most beautiful woman in the empire, but her warped passions drove him to seek another woman's arms... OK, you get the idea, and the cover picture looks more Roman than Hittite to me. It's trash, and quite laughable as far as historical accuracy goes.....
Like I said, "I, the Sun" is the best fictional treatment of the Hittites you're going to find. Read and enjoy. Personally, I didn't put it down until I'd finished it. And then I reread it.
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Book Review: I, the Sun by Janet Morris.
By JP Wilder
In this age of formula fiction and uber-mass market storytelling, historical fiction has become the instrument of the romance market. A hundred romances set in medieval Scotland or Renaissance Italy, or Victorian England. It is the mainstay of a class of fiction that is as prolific as it is average.
And that is profoundly disappointing to me. I love history. I love reading historical nonfiction and I itch to read fiction that can bring history to life. It could be—it should be—the greatest fiction—stories of historical, bigger than life figures that actually lived—people whose real lives are at least as interesting and filled with drama as Aragorn’s or Tywin Lannister’s or Luke Skywalker’s.
I, the Sun is that story.
This book is, far and away, my favorite book of the year—and I read a lot of books. Anyone with a penchant for historical fiction or fantasy fiction should find a reason to sit down, open this one up and throw themselves into it—body and soul.
The ancient world is a time that has interested me in the past, but could never really lure me away from my deep love of history in feudal Asia and Europe. But, this book changed many of my predispositions, and stoked in me a new interest in the ancient world.
One might think that a work of this caliber would require some knowledge of the history of this great civilization, but I knew nothing of the Hittites or their greatest King Suppiluliumas before reading this story.
I didn’t need it.
In this excellent work, the reader quickly becomes immersed in the world. The description is so sharp and beautiful and real, that the reader feels transported into the Bronze Age world, surrounded by all the cultural and physical realities of a dark and very real existence. It closes in on you, sweeps you away. The world of the Hittite king is more deep and thrilling and filled with intrigue than any fantasy world.
What’s more – this story is filled with all of the great things that I love about stories of conquest, imminent death, a bigger-than-life leader, bloody combat and the lamentations of the vanquished. I can now officially say – I rode in a chariot, side by side with a conqueror, dust filling my nostrils, my eyes, choking, clinging for my life.
King Suppiluliumas is not your typical story book conqueror. He is a man of ever-developing character, responding with great, decisive strokes to the many conflicts he finds in the world and events around him. No flat character here: he is filled with regret, but never dissuaded by continuous inner combat with dark insecurities and strong beliefs that challenge the status quo in a world where that meant death.
You will know him. You will grow with him from a young person shunted off into a brutal childhood to the ruler of (arguably) the most powerful empire of the time. His was not an easy life, and his rise to power was no easy path. You will experience it all in grim reds and browns: a story steeped in trail dust, blood and tears.
If you like fantasy. If you like history. If you like adventure. This is the story for you. I Dare you to open this book and delve into its dark, and very real story.
40 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
When Kings were Gods that Bled
By mtgypsy
As posted on my blog, Victoria's Reading Alcove on Wordpress.
Since history is one of my first and most cherished loves, I am rather picky when seeking the “historical fiction” story. It’s not because I don’t enjoy a great story, it’s because I want to read the work of authors that cared enough to really do their homework when it comes to describing people, places and events somewhere in our past. Janet Morris took me on a journey that I have rarely experienced. Be prepared to stay up late at night and grab moments in the day until you help The Sun mount his chariot for his final ride.
Throughout the reading of this fascinating and meticulously written history, I had to constantly resist the urge to return to my own history texts to see what would happen next. Morris laces the book with the words of Suppilulima I himself (although in a slightly modernized version of the ancient record). Her story is peopled with documented participants from the court of the king of Hattie (save for one very unfortunate slave girl).
Suppiluliam I was the throne name of the king of the Hittites ca 1344-1322 BCE. Taking the throne by force in his late teens. He immediately proceeded to rebuild the reputation of the ancient Hittite Empire through statescraft and war. Through his early connections with mercenaries, and one of his father-in-laws, he built one of the most extensive and responsive intelligence networks in the ancient world. He was nearly killed in a war against Mitanni, but regained his strength and eventually reduced that country to a vassal state. His most unfortunate error in timing and strategic planning was the offer of his son, Zannanza to the widow of Tutankhamun. On the way to Egypt, Zannanza’s party was attacked by the forces of Horemheb and all were murdered. The elderly Ay then took the throne of Egypt at the side of the young widow.
The assault against Zannanza ignited a firestorm in the Hittite Empire and The Sun set out to do battle against any and all of Egypt’s protectorates just as the country was beginning to awaken from the daze imposed by Akhenaten and the worship of his one god – Aten. Successful in battle, the armies were not able to combat the plague introduced by the Egyptian prisoners. The plague killed both Suppiluliuma I and his successor and eldest son, Arnuwanda II.
It is not an easy task to bring these ancient courts to life. Often a writer comes across stilted or sounds like a monument builder more than a recorder of human activities including their joys and pain. Many of these stories have no life, no everyday struggles that make up the recorded history. What manner of men and women built these great empires and suffered these epic defeats? Morris brings these people alive and does so in brilliant prose. Painting the picture of a man who struck terror in the hearts of many a king; she also shows the warrior taken and held by the touch of a woman that could match him as a king. Most obvious in the story is the love Suppiluliam I had for his queen Khinti. A woman left to rule in his place while he sought control of the ancient Middle East; who in her loneliness could not resist the temptation of those left at home. As beloved as she was, Morris paints the pain of a sovereign granted the status of a god when he is forced to exile his wife for adultery rather than have her killed as demanded by the law. It is many years before a son of his first queen reunites the two.
The history of the Hittite kingdom is not a great mystery since a large amount of information has survived that tells us about the events, people and life style of the kingdom in the form of clay tablets and stone monuments. If, however, you prefer to take your history in the form of a story told by those who lived it, I highly recommend this wonderful and engrossing read.
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