The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

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Princeton University Press, 5 juin 2018 - 280 pages

When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence--historical, linguistic, and archaeological--to tackle these important questions.

 

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Origins of the Question
3
Some Minority Views on the Coming of the Greeks
16
Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations
25
Considerations from Near Eastern History
46
The New Warfare
74
The Evolution of Opinion on PIE Speakers and the Horse
121
PIE Speakers and the Beginnings of Chariot Warfare
136
The Coming of the Greeks
158
CONCLUSION
197
APPENDIXES
203
BIBLIOGRAPHY
231
INDEX
251
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Robert Drews is Professor of Classics and History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 b.c. (Princeton), The Greek Accounts of Eastern History, and Basileus: The Evidence for Kingship in Geometric Greece.

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