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

Index

Marathon: tholos, 162—63, 187-88,
190; Vrana tumuli, 188—90
Mali, 99, 101
Marinates, Spyridon, 186, 189
maryannu, 59, 60, 142, 151, 155, 156
Medes, 227
Megiddo, battle of, 92, 106
Mellaart, James, 19, 131
Messenia, 82, 186-87, 220, 221
Meyer, Eduard, 9, 10, 54, 124, 136,
205-6
Middle Helladic, characterization of,
12, iS-ign,23, 43
Minyans, 3
Minyan Ware, 12—13, J8, 2 8, 29, 41-
42, 43, 44, 188
Mitanni, 120, 140—43, 145, 183—84;
Great Kingdom of, 48, 60—61, 72,
73, 92, 150; location, 48
Muhly, James, 21, 24, 190
Miiller, Max, ;n
Mursilis I, 56, 58, 72, 105—6, 153
Mycenae: in MH period, 171—72, 175—
76; location, 172. See also Grave Cir-
cle A; Grave Circle B; shaft graves
(Mycenae)
Mylonas, George, 160, 181
myths, Greek, 3—4, 9, 17, 163, 192—
93, 204, 213, 220-21

Nagy, Gregory, 209
Naram-Sin, 229—30
narkabtu, 98, 105, 142—43
Nasatya Twins, 61, 152. See also Heav-
enly Twins
nationalism, 5—6, 53, 64, 65-66, 71;
negligible factor in Bronze Age, 46-
47, 48, 52-53, 55, 57, 62, 64-65,
66—69, 7 J> 72
"Nesaean" horses, 112
Neu, Erich, 102
Nichoria, 82
Nilsson, Martin, 21, 22
"northern European hypotheses," 5, 26,
123, 125, 127—28
North Greek, 39—41, 193, 209-10,
212, 215, 222-24
Nuzi, 86, 87-88, 150, i66n, 229

October Horse, 151
onager, 74, 75-76, 78

Orchomenos, 12, 162, 187

Osmankayasi, 104

Otten, Heinrich, 69

ox, 77, 78, 83, 84, 115, 116, 118, 143

Palaic, 50, 66

Palmer, L. R., 21, 181, I95n

pankui, 68—70, 71, 105

Paros, 182

Peristeria, 186-87

Perrot, Georges, 21

Persian (language), 63n

Persson, A. W., 173, 179

Petrie, Sir Flinders, 102

Phthiotis, 203—4

PIE speakers, 25, 27—28, 29, 33, 35,

58, 70, 193—96, 198—201; associa-

tion with chariot warfare, 121, 124-

28, 129-30, 134-35, 136-57, 159,

170, 177; definition of, xiii; specialty

in making of wheeled vehicles, 121,

133—34, T7°; travel by sea, 181—84,

195; Umman Manda and, 226-30

Piggott, Stuart, 30, 77, 108—9, "6,

!34, 155, '56

place names, in Aegean, 5,13, 2on

Porzig, Walter, 38

pottery: changes tied to Volkerwander-

ungen, 11—13, 43~45> 47> I26n;

Greeks' "pre-Greek" words for, 178;

and periodizarion, 11-12

Proro-Anatolian (language), 50—55, 66,

200

Proto-Indo-European (language), 4, 25,

50—51; definition, xii—xiii; relation to

Proto-Anatolian, 50-52, 200; rela-

tion to Semitic and Kartvelian, 34

Proto-Greek (Common Greek), 25, 39,

4on, 193, 194, I95n, 199, 208-13

Proto-Minyan Ware, 41-43

Pylos, 162, 164, 186, 209, 218

racism, 5—7, 26, 53, 65, 147, 206

raids, 55—56, 67

reins, 96

Renfrew, Colin, 31

Rhodes, 203, 221—22

Rigveda, 5n, 15, 86, 121, 152, 155—56

Risch, Ernst, 38—39, 209, 2ion

rock carvings, 118

Rutter, Jeremy, 42

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