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

The Coming of the Greeks

ing of the Greeks," and I shall hazard mine: if at the beginning
of the sixteenth century B.C. the population of the Thessalian
plain, the Argolid, the Eurotas Valley, Messenia, Boeotia, and
Attica was approximately three-quarters of a million men,
women, and children, the PIE-speaking conquerors may have
numbered no more than about 75,000 men, women, and chil-
dren.

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