Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (Paperback)
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Short Description for Greeks and Pre-Greeks Margalit Finkelberg proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in Greece in the second millennium BC.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 29 January 2009
- Format: Paperback 220 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780521107990 ISBN 10: 0521107997
- Sales rank: 484,891
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Full description for Greeks and Pre-Greeks
By systematically confronting Greek tradition of the Heroic Age with the evidence of both linguistics and archaeology, Margalit Finkelberg proposes a multidisciplinary 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 historic period was a deliberate self-creation. The book addresses such issues as the structure of heroic genealogy, the linguistic and cultural identity of the indigenous population of Greece, the patterns of marriage between heterogeneous groups as they emerge in literary and historical sources, the dialect map of Bronze Age Greece, the factors responsible for the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation and finally, the construction of the myth of the Trojan War.
