Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The heterogeneity of Greek genealogy; 3, The pre-Hellenic substratum reconsidered; 4. Kingship in Bronze Age Greece and Western Asia; 5. Marriage and identity; 6. The spread of the Greek language; 7. The end of the Bronze Age; 8. Continuities and discontinuities; Appendix; References; Indexes.

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Margalit Finkelberg proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in Greece in the second millennium BC.

About the Author

Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics at Tel Aviv University. Her previous books include The Birth of Literary Fiction (Oxford, 1998).

Reviews

'… fascinating and rewarding … This is a very informative, carefully up to date, and stimulating book, clearly written, helpful with difficult concepts, and provided with supporting maps, plans, and diagrams.' Cosmos

'This book is a work of substantial scholarly attainment. The argument ranges widely, but without superficiality, into ethnography, comparative philology, archaeology, myth and into other domains. We have here an original study of the kind that compels critical thinking without, however, provoking protest. … This is a praiseworthy study, and it deserves many attentive readers who should be capable not only of leaping over barriers between subjects but also of thinking laterally.' G. L. Huxley, Trinity College Dublin