Robert Drews
ROBERT DREWS

Professor of Classics Emeritus
VU Station B, #351740
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1740
(615) 322-2516
robert.drews@vanderbilt.edu

 
Favorite Courses
 
Honors 181 Section 32.pdf
 
CLAS 224 Syllabus Fall 2008.doc
 
CLAS 212 History of the Roman Republic.doc
 
CLAS 207 History of the Ancient Near East.doc
 
CLAS 208 History of Greece to Alexander the Great.doc
 
LAT 260 Early Christian Writers.doc
 
Research Interests
 

Ancient history and prehistory, with special interest in the evolution of warfare and of religion.

 
Books Authored or Edited
 

THE GREEK ACCOUNTS OF EASTERN HISTORY.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, for the Center for Hellenic Studies, 1973

BASILEUS.  THE EVIDENCE FOR KINGSHIP IN GEOMETRIC GREECE.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1983

IN SEARCH OF THE SHROUD OF TURIN:  NEW LIGHT ON ITS HISTORY AND ORIGINS.  Totowa, N. J.:  Rowman and Allanheld, 1984.

THE COMING OF THE GREEKS:  INDO-EUROPEAN CONQUESTS IN THE AEGEAN AND THE NEAR EAST.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1988. 

THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE:  CHANGES IN WARFARE AND THE CATASTROPHE CA. 1200 B.C.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1993.

(editor) GREATER ANATOLIA AND THE INDO-HITTITE LANGUAGE FAMILY. Papers presented at a colloquium hosted by the University of Richmond, March 18-19, 2000.  Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2001.

EARLY RIDERS: THE BEGINNINGS OF MOUNTED WARFARE IN ASIA AND EUROPE.  London:  Routledge, 2004.


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