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

When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence-historical, linguistic, and archaeological-to tackle these important questions.When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence-historical, linguistic, and archaeological-to tackle these important questions.

An archaeological and linguistic whodunnit of the most fascinating sort, courageously tackling a much-argued problem from several disciplines at once.... No one dealing with the dispersal of the Indo-Europeans can ignore this book.--Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Occidental College

D. F. Easton - The Classical Review

Into the ever-tangled and speculative debate on Indo-European origins comes this excellent book: lucid, critical, and refreshingly sober.

When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence, historical, linguistic, and archaeological, to tackle these important questions One of the chief attractions of the early Indo-Europeans, including the Greeks of the Bronze Age, is their magnificent obscurity. So much about them is unknown, so little is certain, that one is encouraged to give the imagination free rein.