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

'… 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

• 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.

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

'… 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

• 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.

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

'… 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

• 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.