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.
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