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

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ROBERT DREWS THE COMING OF THE GREEKS Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Princet ...

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Copyright © 1988 by Princeton University Press PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey ...

CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES Vll ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION xi ABBREVIATIONS xvii Chapter One: Origins of the Question 3 Chapte ...

Contents Appendix One: The End of the Bronze Age in Greece 203 Appendix Two: The Umman Manda and the PIE Speakers 226 BIBLIOGRAP ...

LIST OF FIGURES 1 Map of the Near East (physical features after Bur- chard Brentjes, Drei Jahrtausende Armenien [Vienna: Verlag ...

List of Figures Detail of gold ring from Mycenae, Shaft Grave IV (Athens, Nat. Mus. 240). Drawing by J. Morel; from Crouwel, Cha ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my gratitude to Vanderbilt University for giving me the opportunity to spend much of 1986 in r ...

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INTRODUCTION One of the chief attractions of the early Indo-Europeans, in- cluding the Greeks of the Bronze Age, is their magnif ...

Introduction Bronze Age Greece, on the chance that something there will illuminate the darkness that still surrounds almost ever ...

Introduction various Indo-European languages are supposed to have come. It is unlikely that a single and undifferentiated langua ...

Introduction interpretations. What is perhaps original in this essay is the general synthesis. That synthesis is admittedly prec ...

Introduction Levant to be explained? What, if any, was the relationship be- tween the Kassite and Hyksos conquests and the suppo ...

Introduction ings, it will be best to begin by looking at the development of scholarly opinion on "the coming of the Greeks," si ...

ABBREVIATIONS AAA Archaiologika Analekta ex Athenon AD Archaiologikon Deltion A/A American Journal of Archaeology ANET J. B. Pri ...

Abbreviations JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies MH Museum Helveticum PPS Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society TAP A Transac ...

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