Greeks and Pre-Greeks Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition

Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition By Margalit Finkelberg
2006 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 0521852161 | PDF | 4 MB
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.