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Author Drews, Robert

Title The coming of the Greeks : Indo-European conquests in the Aegean and the Near East / Robert Drews
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages) : illustrations
Contents Origins of the question -- Some minority views on the coming of the Greeks -- Linguistic and archaeological considerations -- Considerations from near Eastern history -- The new warfare -- The evolution of opinion on PIE speakers and the horse -- PIE speakers and the beginnings of chariot warfare -- The coming of the Greeks -- Conclusion -- Appendix one -- The end of the Bronze Age -- Appendix two -- The Umman Manda and the PIE speakers
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index
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Subject Greeks -- Origin
Bronze age -- Greece
Indo-Europeans -- Origin
Bronze age -- Middle East
Chariot warfare.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Bronze age.
Chariot warfare.
Greeks -- Origin.
Indo-Europeans -- Origin.
Bronstijd.
Grieken.
Migratie (demografie)
Oorlogvoering.
CIVILIZAÇÃO GREGA.
Âge du bronze -- Grèce.
Âge du bronze -- Moyen-Orient.
Grecs -- Origines.
Indo-Européens -- Origines.
Migrations de peuples -- Antiquité.
Greece.
Middle East.
GRÉCIA (HISTÓRIA)
Grèce -- Population -- Antiquité.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780691186580
0691186588