The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition

Drews, Robert

ISBN 10: 0691048118 / ISBN 13: 9780691048116

Published by Princeton University Press, 1993

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Title: The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in ...

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: new

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Synopsis:

The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.

About the Author:

Robert Drews is Professor of Classics and History at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East (Princeton).