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

Drews, Robert

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9780691035925: The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

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ISBN 10: 069103592X ISBN 13: 9780691035925

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1988

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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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"An archaeological and linguistic whodunnit of the most fascinating sort, courageously tackling a much-argued problem from several disciplines at once.... No one dealing with the dispersal of the Indo-Europeans can ignore this book."--Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Occidental College

About the Author:

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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