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.
"Into the ever-tangled and speculative debate on Indo-European
origins comes this excellent book: lucid, critical, and
refreshingly sober."---D. F. Easton, The Classical Review
"The fact that [a] pattern of localized Near Eastern takeovers
coincides with the inception of chariot warfare, coupled with his
carefully documented hypothesis that Proto-Indo-European-speaking
(PIE) peoples in Armenia were responsible for the development and
spread of chariot warfare, serves as the backdrop to Drews's
innovative scenario for the arrival of the Greeks.... Such complete
Near Eastern analogies involving archaeology, mythology, and
linguistics, for example, have been rarely applied to support
theories of PIE dispersal.... His research serves the critical
function of provoking new views of a long-standing
problem."---Susan N. Skomal, American Journal of Archaeology
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