Greeks and Pre-Greeks : Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition

by: Finkelberg, M.

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Systematically confronting Greek tradition of the Heroic Age with the evidence of both linguistics and archaeology, Margalit Finkelberg proposes an interdisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in Greece in the second millennium BC. The main thesis of this book is that the Greeks started their history as a multi-ethnic population group consisting of both Greek-speaking newcomers and the indigenous population of the land, and that the body of 'Hellenes' as known to us from the historical period was a deliberate self-creation.

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.

Greeks and Pre-Greeks : Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition

by: Finkelberg, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780521852166 / 978-0-521-85216-6
• ISBN-03: 0521852161 / 0-521-85216-1
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005

Price: 85,00 EURO

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