ROBERT DREWS
Professor of Classics Emeritus
PMB 0092
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
(615) 322-2516
robert.drews@vanderbilt.edu 
 

 

 

 

Current Course
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.

Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe. London: Routledge, 2017.